Sudden spike in prison violence ‘a problem right across the country’
HALIFAX — It’s 26 seconds of brutality — and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails.
Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, is suddenly sucker-punched from behind by another inmate. A video of the attack shows him falling to the floor, his shoes flying off, as he tries to cover his face from a series of head shots.
His attacker, Charles Wallace, finishes with six soccer kicks to the 34-year-old Wright’s head, and calmly resumes pacing and chatting with another inmate.
The video shows the other inmates at Halifax’s Central Nova Scotia Correctional facility take little notice, while guards never enter the room.