In what one former inmate’s lawyer described as a suspicious pattern, the Maplehurst Correctional Complex has lost critical video footage in another case of alleged inmate abuse .

Jail officials admitted in court proceedings that staff saved the wrong surveillance camera footage in relation to a 2021 incident, meaning there is nothing to corroborate an inmate’s claims that he was assaulted by correctional officers.

The former inmate, Christopher Vance, sued the province and four unnamed correctional officers in September 2023 for $445,000, alleging he was assaulted by jail guards on two occasions — once at Maplehurst and once at the Stratford Jail — leading to physical and mental injuries.

Maplehurst officials infamously lost some audio and video footage of a December 2023 incident

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