High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ashley Smith inquest was a coroner`s inquest in Ontario related to the institutional death of Ashley Smith, a teenager who committed suicide on October 19, 2007, while she was under suicide watch at the Grand Valley Institution for Women. Despite guards watching her on video monitors the prisoner Smith was able to strangle herself with a strip of cloth, and it was several hours before guards or supervisors realized she was dead. The warden and deputy warden were fired after the incident, and though the guards and supervisors were initially charged for negligence, those charges were dropped a year later. Smith`s family brought a lawsuit against the Correctional Service of Canada for negligence; this lawsuit was settled out of court in May 2011.