WARNING: This story discusses mental distress and suicide.
Jurors at the inquest into the death of Moses Amik Beaver have been hearing again and again about systemic issues within the corrections system and the strained communications between the people who provided him care.
Beaver, a Woodlands artist from Nibinamik, an Oji-Cree First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was 56 when he died in custody in Thunder Bay. The inquest into his death – which is mandatory under the Ontario Coroner’s Act when a person dies in custody – is now in its third week.
The jury learned this past week that Beaver died by suicide on Feb. 13,
