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atients at Ontario mental-health centre, judge rules SUBSCRIBE SIGN IN search button AdChoices Email to friend Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Doctors tortured patients at Ontario mental-health centre, judge rules Open this photo in gallery: Danny Joanisse, seen in his home in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Wednesday, was a patient at the Oak Ridge division of the Penetanguishene mental-health centre off and on for years, and says he suffered severe abuse. PETER POWER/THE GLOBE AND MAIL SEAN FINE JUSTICE WRITER JUNE 8, 2017 JUNE 7, 2017 Patients at a maximum-security mental-health facility in Ontario were tortured by medical doctors over a 17-year period in unethical and degrading human experiments, a judge has ruled in a lawsuit. The techniques used on the patients between 1966 and 1983 included solitary confinement, as treatment and as punishment; the adminis...

Patients at a maximum-security mental-health facility in Ontario were tortured by medical doctors over a 17-year period in unethical and degrading human experiments, a judge has ruled in a lawsuit. The techniques used on the patients between 1966 and 1983 included solitary confinement, as treatment and as punishment; the administration of hallucinogens and delirium-producing drugs, including LSD; and brainwashing methods developed by the CIA, according to Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Some of the patients at the Oak Ridge division of the Penetanguishene mental-health centre in central Ontario had been charged with crimes such as rape, murder and  child abuse , and had been found not guilty by reason of insanity; others had simply been committed by their doctors. The Oak Ridge doctors contended that with intensive therapy the patients could someday be freed. An estimated 1,260 patients spent time in the program between roughly 1965 and 1979. ...