Ontario liable for severe jailhouse attack on gang member by rivals
TORONTO — Jail authorities were negligent to house rival gang members in the same unit and therefore liable for the injuries one of them sustained in a beating, Ontario’s top court ruled Monday.
The ruling upholds a lower court finding that found the guards largely liable for what happened to Jason Walters, who spent months in hospital, more than a year in rehabilitation, and was left with permanent brain damage.
Walters was a low-level member of Toronto’s east end Malvern Crew, which was involved in an ongoing turf war with the Galloway Boyz, which had Tyshan Riley as leader or senior member.
“The security risks that Riley posed ought to have been known to all members of the justice system,” the Appeal Court said. “This information should have influenced (the) decision on Walters’ placement.”