Immigration Detention | Caged by Canada, Part 1

Caged by Canada

Along with the indefinite nature of immigration detention, the use of criminal jails to house migrants has been a major target of criticism from humanitarian organizations.

Looking at one day in January as a snapshot, the Star found that more than two-thirds of immigration detainees, including almost all of the long-term detainees, were in maximum-security provincial jails. Canada’s three medium-security facilities dedicated to immigration detention — one each in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, which can hold 195, 109 and 24 people, respectively — were not full.

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