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Dr. John Bradford
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Forensic psychiatrist, formerly of the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.
Connected Scandals
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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.
Warned the Ontario government in December 2018 about "horrific conditions" at Waypoint. The ministry’s follow-up in 2019 amounted to a single phone call to a hospital executive, with no site visit.