Immigration Detention Canada

• CBSA to use GPS, check-ins to track immigration detainees instead of imprisoning them

  The full array of new "alternatives to detention," will be rolled out by April 2018, the CBSA has confirmed.

  Canada

  Dec 21, 2017
  
• Immigration detention ‘woefully unsuited for children,’ report charges

  Every year, hundreds of children (some Canadian citizens) spend time incarcerated in Canada's immigration detention system.

  Canada

  Sep 22, 2016
  
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• Alvin Brown’s court challenge to imprisonment could open gates to more

  A Jamaican man gets a rare chance today to ask a Superior Court in Toronto to look at whether his ongoing immigration detention is justified.

  Canada

  Aug 30, 2016
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• Lack of interest stalls new immigration detention plan

  A government pledge to cut down on the number of immigrants who end up in detention centres is actually building on work already being done by the Canada Border Services Agency.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2016
• Detainees’ hunger strike in Lindsay, Ont., jail down to two holdouts, officials say

  A hunger strike by immigration detainees jailed in Lindsay, Ont. has passed the two-week mark, but details are hard to come by.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2016
• Feds to ‘dramatically reduce’ jailing of immigration detainees: Goodale

  Ottawa plans to mostly phase out holding immigration detainees in provincial jails, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told reporters Wednesday in Ottawa.

  Canada

  Jun 16, 2016