Bordeaux jail is shown in Montreal, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Quebec's Public Security Department says a 21-year-old man who died after suffering injuries at a Montreal jail should have been released the day before. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
MONTREAL – Quebec’s Public Security Department says a 21-year-old man who died after suffering injuries inside a Montreal jail was being illegally detained.
Department spokeswoman Marie-Josée Montminy says Nicous D’Andre Spring should have been released Dec. 23 after he appeared virtually in court earlier that day.
Montminy says the 21-year-old was in “illegal detention” when he was injured Dec. 24 inside the Montreal detention centre, known as the Bordeaux jail. D’Andre Spring died in hospital.
One jail guard has been suspended in relation to D’Andre Spring’s death, which is being investigated by provincial police and the coroner’s office.
Montminy says the Public Security Department will also conduct an investigation into the man’s death and illegal detention.
Neither the police nor the government have released details about the incident inside the jail that led to the death of D’Andre Spring.
A vigil is scheduled this evening for him in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 30, 2022.
