The violations were so "prolonged, abhorrent, egregious and intolerable" that staying the murder charge was the only appropriate solution, the judge said. One of the cells in Block 11 at the Thunder Bay District Jail where Capay spent almost one year of his 4½ years in solitary confinement. Ontario Superior Court Justice John Fregeau handed down his decision staying Capay's first-degree murder charge on Jan. 28. "We had ... tears of overjoyment," Williams said outside the Thunder Bay courthouse after Fregeau's decision was issued in January. Lundy is now the vice-president of the local Ontario Public Service Employees Union at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre.

Source: CBC News February 26, 2019 18:22 UTC