It’s one in a string of horrific incidents involving individuals with mental health issues at Toronto South Detention Centre, calling into question the jail’s ability to manage particularly vulnerable inmates.
A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to viciously attacking his elderly cellmate at a notorious Toronto jail in an assault that included removing the victim’s eyeballs.
Douglats Destruzions-Dumesnil, 52, stood in the prisoner’s box in his orange jail jumpsuit and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on 81-year-old Luther Pippy in their cell at the Toronto South Detention Centre on April 12.
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