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Maplehurst Correctional Facility and Maximum Security Prisons

Ontario prisons: It holds them in maximum security prisons for months, sometimes years, although they have committed no crime, according to Toronto Star. It keeps them behind bars until it can confirm their identities and deport them. It locks up thousands of immigrants and asylum seekers every year. Two detainees died in Ontario prisons this month. The second was found six days later in his cell at the Maplehurst Correctional Facility in Milton with no vital signs. The first was found unconscious and not breathing in his cell in the Toronto East Detention Centre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.