Piché: Stop jailing people with mental health issues. It kills

Cleve “Cas” Geddes died by suicide on Feb. 10, 2017 after being placed in a solitary confinement cell in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC) while awaiting a psychiatric bed. An inquest into his death resumes this week.
Earlier in the inquest, we learned from Sigrid Geddes that her brother, Cas, had long struggled with schizophrenia. We learned that when Cas came before a judge facing charges, he was ordered sent to the Royal Ottawa Hospital for a psychiatric assessment. We l