Immigration Detention and University of Toronto Law School

University of Toronto law school: Calling the country immigration detention system a legal black hole, University of Toronto law school researchers said there are no established criteria in law to determine when a detainee can or should be transferred from an immigration holding centre to a provincial jail, according to Metro News. In some cases, the end result is long-term detention that is, in practice, preventative and indefinite and Canada regularly breaches international human rights obligations by routinely detaining migrants with mental health issues in maximum-security jails sometimes for years, says a hard-hitting new study. Canada detention review regime creates an effective presumption against release, while judicial review of detention decisions is largely ineffectual, said the study by the law school International Human Rights Program, to be released Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.