Sudbury Jail should do more to ensure the inmates in segregation are still alive and are not experiencing medical distress, a coroner’s inquest jury has concluded.

It should also look at providing overnight nursing care and adding doctors or nurse practitioners to look after inmates.

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They are some of the 13 recommendations the jury made after looking into the death of Justin Alexander Trudeau on Feb. 13, 2021. The Wikwemikong man died five days after reporting to the Sudbury Jail to serve a 30-day sentence.

The 13 recommendations, released Tuesday, encompass eight recommendations the inquest’s lawyers suggested on Monday, plus five more the five-member jury developed on its own.

The recommendations were broken down into four groupings. The first grouping, directed t

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