Masoud Hajivand is one of more than 200 immigration detainees held in Ontario's notoriously crowded jails, many of them without charge. All of them, Global News has learned, have been hidden for years from Red Cross attempts to ascertain their well-being.

Global News analysis of coroner's reports has found CBSA's failure to learn from its own mistakes may have contributed to more deaths.

Canada has paid millions of dollars to more than 3,600 people to abandon refugee appeals and leave the country. Most of those people are Roma.

Months-long Global News investigation uncovers Canada's questionable practices when it comes to refugee claimants and immigration detainees.

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

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

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says changes are coming to Canada's immigration detention system.

Provincial and federal governments are under renewed pressure to stop putting immigration detainees with severe mental illness in jail and solitary confinement indefinitely.

Severe illness was the reason Canada's border police put him in jail. It was the reason, once in jail, he was placed in solitary confinement.

A Chilean immigration detainee who died at the Maplehurst jail near Toronto Sunday was arrested in January while stealing food and told police he was depressed and suicidal, Immigration and Refugee Board documents show.