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Brutal end behind bars

The official narrative of what happened to Will Ahmo — an Indigenous inmate at Headingley Correctional Centre — and how he ended up in a Winnipeg hospital on life support with brain and spinal injuries, is virtually non-existent.
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After an altercation in Headingley Correctional Institute in Feb. 2021, William Walter Ahmo was found unconscious, and died a week later.
William Walter Ahmo was taken to hospital from Headingley Correctional Centre with life-threatening injuries and died. (Submitted by Darlene Ahmo)

The official narrative of what happened to Will Ahmo — an Indigenous inmate at Headingley Correctional Centre — and how he ended up in a Winnipeg hospital on life support with brain and spinal injuries, is virtually non-existent.

At 7 p.m. on Feb. 7, the RCMP received a report of an "unresponsive male" at the jail resulting from an "incident" with guards. The nature of the incident was "not clear," the police said, and the inmate was taken to hospital with "life-threatening injuries."

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