Video shows Maplehurst jail guards violent retribution [Video]

Security camera footage from Maplehurst provincial jail, where in December 2023 correctional officers carried out out a coordinated collective punishment of nearly 200 inmates in what has been described by a judge as a “gross display of power” that violated inmates’ rights.

Ministry of the Solicitor General

Inmates in their underwear, their heads bowed and hands zip-tied, sit cross-legged facing the wall while jail guards in riot gear train laser-pointed pepper-ball guns at the backs of their heads.

Surveying the scene as he walks through the hallway, the jail’s superintendent doles out congratulatory fist bumps and back pats.

Brendan Kennedy is a reporter on the Toronto Star’sinvestigative team. Reach him via email: [email protected]