A 50-year-old woman detained by Canadian immigration officials in a maximum-security jail in Milton died on Monday, according to a brief news release from the Canada Border Services Agency. The woman is the 10th person to die in immigration detention in the last five years and at least the sixteenth since 2000. Article Continued BelowIn Ontario, immigration detainees are held either at the Immigration Holding Centre, a minimum-security facility in Etobicoke exclusive to immigration detainees, or in maximum-security provincial jails, where they are treated as sentenced criminals and those awaiting trial are. Canada’s immigration detention system has come under increased scrutiny this year, in the wake of a number of high-profile court challenges. “People keep dying in immigration holding centres and maximum-security prisons,” said Nisha Toomey, spokeswoman for the End Immigration Detention Network.

Source: thestar November 02, 2017 21:33 UTC