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Ontario finally allows Red Cross investigation of immigration jails, but deaths and indefinite imprisonment continues
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Publisher:  End Immigration Detention Network (EIDN)
Date Written:  07/11/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article

End Immigration Detention Network welcomes the decision to allow Red Cross access to Ontario’s provincial prisons for the first time since 2008. However, the lack of any real oversight of prison conditions of immigration detainees adds to the dire

Abstract:  Toronto - End Immigration Detention Network (EIDN), Canada’s leading detention watch group, welcomes the decision to allow Red Cross access to Ontario’s provincial prisons for the first time since 2008. However, the lack of any real oversight of prison conditions of immigration detainees adds to the dire need to end maximum-security imprisonment of immigrants without trial or charges. A GlobalNews report today documented 11 deaths in immigration detention custody since 2000.


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