Showers should be a right for prisoners: Inquiry Judge for death in Peace River Correctional Centre
PEACE RIVER, Alta. – A fatality inquiry into an inmate’s suicide at an Alberta jail has concluded that regular showers should be considered a basic requirement or right.
The inquiry looked into the death of Brent Miro Matkowski, who hanged himself in his cell at the Peace River Correctional Centre in March 2012.
Matkowski, who was 47 and from Spirit River, Alta., had been waiting to be sentenced for a sexual assault six years earlier and was in custody for failing to make a court appearance.
A staff psychologist believed Matkowski was suffering from alcohol withdrawal, so the inmate was placed in an isolation cell for monitoring.