Drug overdoses account for most inmate deaths
Forty per cent of the provincial jail deaths that occurred between 2014 and 2021 were due to accidental drug overdoses, according to a review by Ontario Chief Coroner's Expert Panel on Deaths in Custody.
A pie chart with six slices showing the different causes of death in provincial jails from 2014 to 2021. The largest slice is "Accident - drug toxicity" (74), followed by "Natural" (52), "Suicide" (45), "Undetermined" (12) and "Accident - Other" (3),
