Rewind: A look back at the Ashley Smith coroner’s inquest

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Posted December 19, 2013 9:11 am.

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The jury at the coroner’s inquest into Ashley Smith’s 2007 prison death returned a verdict of homicide. Smith, 19, of Moncton, N.B., choked herself to death while in segregation at a women’s prison in Kitchener, Ont.

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