Jury delivers sweeping recommendations to prevent jail suicides

Better training for police dealing with mentally ill people and an end to the use of segregation for suicidal or mentally ill inmates are among a list of 48 recommendations delivered by the jury at a inquest into the hanging death of Cleve Geddes at the Ottawa jail.
In their verdict delivered Monday, jurors also urged the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre to create a specialized mental health unit “as soon as possible” and end the practice of doing psychological counselling through ce