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Central East Correctional Centre and Immigration Detainees

Mina Ramos: They told her the man "didn't get medical care," while at the correctional centre, she said, according to Guelph Mercury. Ramos called conditions inside the Central East Correctional Centre, where hundreds are detained by Canada immigration authorities with no release date, "deplorable." "Sometimes they're on lockdown for an entire week," she said, adding that detainees share very small cells and don't often get outside. "They don't even have a sentence. Mina Ramos has been in contact with other immigration detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., through a detainee phone line based in Guelph. They are just waiting, waiting, waiting to see what the government will do to them," she said. A release on the investigations unit website says the man, who was in custody of the Central East Correctional Centre, was admitted to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre for medical reasons. "At approximately 1 a.m. on Thursday, June 11, 2015, the man became agitated. The province Special Investigations Unit is investigating the man death, but has not released his name or what country he came from. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.