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Read the case study entitled The Case of Ashley Smith: Problems with Youth and Adult Corrections found on p. 263 of your textbook. Now answer the following questions: 1. What went wrong in the case of Ashley Smith? 2. How should the youth justice and correctional systems specifically address their role in her situation in order to avoid future preventable deaths? CASE IN POINT Chapter 9 Youth Connections 2 Youth and Adult Corrections The Case of Ashley Smith: Problems with In 2007, Ashley Smith, a 19-year-old from Moncton, New Brunswick, died in solitary confinement far from home at an adult penitentiary in Ontario. She died after being transferred from the youth system less than one year earlier. She had committed only minor offences while in the community, but a series of administration of justice charges while in youth custody led to her being consid ered a serious offender. The index offence for which she was originally sent to prison was a charge for throwing a crab apple at a Canada Post worker while on probation for stealing a music CD. While this was not a serious offence, as has been pointed out throughout this text, the use of failure to abide with a disposition and administrative justice offences often led to custodial terms, particularly for girls. Smith was held in dosed custody at the New Brunswick Youth Centre (NBYC). The real reason she ended up in "therapeutic quiet" (ie, solitary confinement) was not the criminal offence that had led her to the custodial centre. It was a snowballing series of hundreds of administration of justice charges and disciplinary sanctions laid against Smith while she was in youth, and then adult, custody. Both in the community and in youth custody, Smith was often defiant and disruptive in ways that were seen as particularly unusual for a girl. It was because Smith was so disruptive that, when she turned 18, an application was made to transfer her from youth corrections to the adult system. Convictions she had received for being disruptive and disobedient while in added enough time to her sentence that mental health facility to penitentiary, across Canada for 11 months, until she took her own life in a supervised segre gation cell. because she died while in adult corrections custody in An inquest was held to investigate Smith's death Ontario. The inquest only had jurisdiction to inquire into her time spent in adult custody. After several months of proceedings, in an unpreced- ented verdict rendered in December 2013, the inquest jury ruled that, despite Smith having died by her own hand, her death was neither a suicide nor an accident, but a homicide. The jury's homicide verdict meant it de- termined that what had killed Smith was not a person but the correctional and justice systems. Before this case, no verdict by a Canadian inquest had ruled the death of a prisoner to be a homicide unless the death was caused by another inmate. In this case, the jury made 104 recommendations for changes to the oper- ations of the correctional system in Canada in conjunc- tion with the verdict. The very first of the 104 recommendations made by the jury in the Smith inquest was that her death should be used as a case study for training of all adult correctional staff, so it is very apt that we should study it. Discussion Questions 1. What went wrong in the case of Ashley Smith? 2. How should the youth justice and correctional systems specifically address their role in Smith's Read the case study entitled The Case of Ashley Smith: Problems with Youth and Adult Corrections found on p. 263 of your textbook. Now answer the following questions: 1. What went wrong in the case of Ashley Smith? 2. How should the youth justice and correctional systems specifically address their role in her situation in order to avoid future preventable deaths? CASE IN POINT Chapter 9 Youth Connections 2 Youth and Adult Corrections The Case of Ashley Smith: Problems with In 2007, Ashley Smith, a 19-year-old from Moncton, New Brunswick, died in solitary confinement far from home at an adult penitentiary in Ontario. She died after being transferred from the youth system less than one year earlier. She had committed only minor offences while in the community, but a series of administration of justice charges while in youth custody led to her being consid ered a serious offender. The index offence for which she was originally sent to prison was a charge for throwing a crab apple at a Canada Post worker while on probation for stealing a music CD. While this was not a serious offence, as has been pointed out throughout this text, the use of failure to abide with a disposition and administrative justice offences often led to custodial terms, particularly for girls. Smith was held in dosed custody at the New Brunswick Youth Centre (NBYC). The real reason she ended up in "therapeutic quiet" (ie, solitary confinement) was not the criminal offence that had led her to the custodial centre. It was a snowballing series of hundreds of administration of justice charges and disciplinary sanctions laid against Smith while she was in youth, and then adult, custody. Both in the community and in youth custody, Smith was often defiant and disruptive in ways that were seen as particularly unusual for a girl. It was because Smith was so disruptive that, when she turned 18, an application was made to transfer her from youth corrections to the adult system. Convictions she had received for being disruptive and disobedient while in added enough time to her sentence that mental health facility to penitentiary, across Canada for 11 months, until she took her own life in a supervised segre gation cell. because she died while in adult corrections custody in An inquest was held to investigate Smith's death Ontario. The inquest only had jurisdiction to inquire into her time spent in adult custody. After several months of proceedings, in an unpreced- ented verdict rendered in December 2013, the inquest jury ruled that, despite Smith having died by her own hand, her death was neither a suicide nor an accident, but a homicide. The jury's homicide verdict meant it de- termined that what had killed Smith was not a person but the correctional and justice systems. Before this case, no verdict by a Canadian inquest had ruled the death of a prisoner to be a homicide unless the death was caused by another inmate. In this case, the jury made 104 recommendations for changes to the oper- ations of the correctional system in Canada in conjunc- tion with the verdict. The very first of the 104 recommendations made by the jury in the Smith inquest was that her death should be used as a case study for training of all adult correctional staff, so it is very apt that we should study it. Discussion Questions 1. What went wrong in the case of Ashley Smith? 2. How should the youth justice and correctional systems specifically address their role in Smith's