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Jacques Gallant
Toronto Star
Journalist
Investigative reporter at the Toronto Star.
Connected Scandals
Journalist
Ontario's only maximum-security psychiatric hospital has kept severely mentally ill patients locked alone in rooms for years — one man for about 20 years — in conditions an independent reviewer found akin to what the UN "deemed to constitute torture." The Ford government was warned in 2018 and responded with a single phone call.
Authored the Toronto Star’s "20 Years in Isolation" investigation into the use of long-term seclusion at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, and the follow-up reporting on the independent review, the ministry’s NDA-bound confidential review, and the 2018 warning to the Ford government.
Sources
News Report
- 20 years in isolation: the story of Camelott Hamblett — Toronto Star
- He warned Ford’s government this hospital locks people in horrific isolation. The province called one hospital exec — then did nothing — Toronto Star
- Locked up alone for years: Ontario hospital’s use of isolation akin to torture, independent review finds — Toronto Star
- Why this Ontario psychiatric hospital’s use of long-term isolation is being called abusive — Toronto Star
- Ontario conducting secret review of forensic mental health system; participants asked to sign NDA — Toronto Star