Immigration Detainees

immigration detainees: About 200 inmates being held in Greater Toronto have been relocated to the Central East Correctional Centre since August because of a coming closure of the Toronto West Detention Centre, a move critics say isolates the detainees and keeps them from receiving help and support, according to The Star. Some have been on a hunger strike since Wednesday morning, has learned and GTA immigration detainees recently transferred to a jail in Lindsay, Ont., held a protest and staged a hunger strike this week over what they describe as unfair treatment. The detainees staged the protest at 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to a memo from the Lindsay facilitys administration to the Canada Border Service Agency. Negotiators were brought in and the inmates returned to their cells at 10 p.m. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.