Nothing in Ryan Richards’ character merited the treatment he received while imprisoned at three different institutions, the judge ruled
just before Christmas, Federal Court Judge John Norris lambasted Correctional Services Canada for its treatment of inmate Ryan Ricardo Richards and ordered the government to pay him $184,825 in damages and interest for the abuse suffered nearly a decade ago.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Mr. Richards is intelligent, thoughtful, and articulate. He can also be demanding and inflexible. He would probably be the first to admit that he is not always an easy person to deal with, especially in institutional settings,” the judge wrote at the beginning of his ruling on a lawsuit that took nearly seven years to resolve.
The first time, they declined to call the manager and warned him not to press it again, allegedly telling him to “shut your f—ing piehole.” Correctional officers argued that Richards was “presenting himself in a threatening or aggressive” manner and thus posed a risk to them as they entered his cell. But the judge found that most of what four correctional officers described to him was incompatible with the surveillance video presented at trial, going so far as saying that one account was “complete fiction.” He rejected their evidence “in its entirety.
Later that same month, Richards was “unlawfully” sent back to solitary confinement and then transferred from a medium to maximum security prison based on a “flawed” investigation CSC conducted “negligently” into his alleged involvement in the stabbing of a fellow inmate. The investigation started from an unverified tip from “confidential sources.”Article content
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