Two inmates in 3 days die at Edmonton Institution
The deaths of two men at the Edmonton Institution within the past week are prompting one advocate to call for a public inquiry into conditions at the maximum-security prison.
Evan Foureyes, 35, died on Feb. 21 at the Edmonton Institution, the Correctional Service of Canada said in a news release the following day.
Foureyes was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder after a fatal stabbing on the Sunchild First Nation, Alta., in November 2018.
Latto Sesay, 40, died on Feb. 23. He had been serving a sentence of eight years and four months related to two aggravated assaults in Victoria, B.C., in March 2018.
The CSC did not say how the men died.
In all cases when someone dies of “non-natural causes while in custody,” police and coroner are called in to investigate, the CSC said in an email to CBC News Wednesday.
Edmonton police said they investigated and have deemed the deaths to be non-criminal.
Edmonton lawyer Tom Engel said the CSC should release how the inmates died.
Engel, also the president of the Canadian Prison Law Association, wants the federal government to conduct a public inquiry into how the Edmonton Institution operates.
“It’s been a problem for decades,” Engel said in an interview Wednesday.
A report from Canada’s correctional investigator in fall 2022 describes the Edmonton Institution as overpopulated and understaffed, with no programs or meaningful work opportunities for inmates.
Engel said he hadn’t been to the institution in several years.
“I do know that the complaints keep coming,” he said. “From prisoners I talk to, if there are any improvements, they are insignificant.”
CBC News sent a request for comment to the federal Public Safety Ministry but has not heard back.
2018 murder
Foureyes was convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing Arley Lagrelle during a fight outside the Sunchild Store on Nov. 8th, 2018.
In his sentencing judgment in February 2022, Justice Nicholas Devlin noted that Foureyes dropped out of school at the age of 12 and frequently witnessed incidents of violence during his youth.
“Violence became normalized to him, and he internalized it as a problem-solving tool,” the judgment says.
Foureyes appealed the conviction and the courts ordered a new trial in 2023.
Will Van Engen, Foureyes’ lawyer for the retrial, said the jury was not properly instructed during the first trial.
In September 2024, a jury in Red Deer found Foureyes guilty of second-degree murder again.
He was due to be sentenced in June this year.
Aggravated assault
Sesay pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for an incident outside a Victoria nightclub on March 18, 2018. He was also convicted of aggravated assault on March 31, 2018.
The lawyer who represented Sesay in Victoria, Neil Brooks, didn’t know that his former client had died in custody.
“I only knew him to be a strong and healthy young man,” Brooks told CBC News. “I’m not drawn immediately to one direction in terms of thought to why he would have passed.”
Brooks said Sesay was subjected to a childhood of abuse.
A written decision from Judge C. Rogers at the Provincial Court of British Columbia noted Sesay’s extensive criminal history.
“He had a very difficult upbringing and has had an almost unbroken record of involvement with the criminal justice system since the age of 13,” the decision says.
The decision said that Sesay made considerable rehabilitative efforts, and “through these efforts has both gained insight into his offending and taken steps to avoid reoccurrence upon his release.”
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