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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: ‘Torturing us as payback’: How Ontario jail guards exacted a violent, hours-long revenge against inmates
Description: Guest: Brendan Kennedy, investigative reporter at The Star On Dec. 20, 2023 a guard was assaulted by an inmate at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton, Ontario. The inmate was then immediately removed from the facility. Two days later, jail guards in full riot gear carried out a violent, mass strip search of 192 inmates – none of whom were involved in the initial incident -- in a coordinated, collective punishment that spanned 48 hours. A judge has called it a gross display of power, something that should never happen in this country. However, the Ministry of the Solicitor General, who overs...