Melissa Chatzimanolakis’ brother Anthony died while awaiting trial at an Ontario jail late last month, marking one of the latest amongst an increasing number of inmate deaths in recent years – but Melissa says she’s refusing to let him become “a sad statistic.”
Melissa Chatzimanolakis’ brother Anthony died while awaiting trial at an Ontario jail late last month, marking one of the latest amongst an increasing number of inmate deaths in recent years – but Melissa says she’s refusing to let him become “a sad statistic.”
Anthony Chatzimanolakis, 30, died in pre-trial custody in a Toronto jail in March. His family and lawyer say the man was in need of medical attention and that the province owes its inmates a duty of care.
Anthony Chatzimanolakis’s family says it has been told he died Saturday of a suspected overdose. They say he had been waiting months for urgent abdominal surgery.