Son was in 'fragmented' state of mind before prison suicide, dad says

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man says his son was in a “fragmented” state of mind just days before he hanged himself in a solitary confinement prison cell where he didn’t belong.
Robert Roy told a B.C. Supreme Court trial challenging the use of indefinite confinement that he was distressed to learn his son wanted to be transferred from medium-security Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford to Kent Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary in nearby Agassiz.
Court heard Ch