The senior corrections officer targeted in an alleged murder plot that sparked the Project South probe into police corruption defended his work at Toronto South Detention Centre in court Thursday in response to allegations that he oversaw abusive practices and threatened inmates.

The allegations come from current inmate Joshua James Malcolm-Evans, who has already pleaded guilty to gun-trafficking charges unrelated to the Project South investigation.

Malcolm-Evans has filed a Charter application arguing his rights have been violated by the jail, and he is looking for a shorter sentence or stay of proceedings in his case.

In his affidavit, Malcolm-Evans alleges the senior corrections officer regularly visited his range to search cells for contraband and would personally “throw inmates’ property into garbage, damage books, mix belongings within the cell … and take away clothes and blankets.”

He also alleges the jail guard oversaw improper strip searches, told him inmates have no rights and set him up to be charged with possession of a weapon.

“To this day I am deeply traumatized by my experience,” wrote Malcolm-Evans, who’s been held at the Toronto jail since February 2024.

“I am no longer the same man I was when I entered TSDC. They have broken me.”

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