Sask. asks court to penalize Anishinabe man over published jail videos experts say show torture
The Saskatchewan government is asking the provincial court to penalize Matthew Michel, an Anishinabe man they claim breached court rules following the publication of information and video from inside a youth jail showing staff immobilizing him with a restraint device while he wept, hyperventilated and asked for death.
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![Matthew Michel is shown at the Saskatoon home he grew up in on June 5, 2023, the day he was released from the Saskatoon Correctional Centre. Michel says his early interactions with the juvenile corrections system, including his time spent in a restraining device known as the Wrap, had a traumatic, lasting impact on him. A man with arm and neck tattoos, wearing a blue T-Shirt, stands outside a boarded up house, smoking a cigarette.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.6885952.1697505603!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/matthew-michel.jpg)
The Saskatchewan government is asking the provincial court to penalize Matthew Michel, an Anishinabe man they claim breached court rules following the publication of information and video from inside a youth jail showing staff immobilizing him with a restraint device while he wept, hyperventilated and asked for death.