Ontario Community Safety Correctional Services and Yasir Naqvi

immigration detainees: The move follows a similar effort by doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals in an open letter to Ontario Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Yasir Naqvi, after a string of recent deaths involving immigration detainees, according to Toronto Star. The concern we have is that people are being detained and transferred to facilities for people punished for criminal offences for the convenience of CBSA , said University of Toronto law professor Audrey Macklin, one of more than 100 refugee lawyers in Ontario who signed the petition sent to Naqvi office last Wednesday. By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Sat., May 28, 2016 Ontario lawyers are calling on the province to end the arbitrary and punitive detention of migrants held in provincial jails for violating the country immigration laws. These people have not committed any crime. CBSA transfers detainees from its holding centres to provincial jails if they pose a danger to others, have physical and mental health needs or are unlikely to qualify for early release. One of the reasons they give to transfer them is because of their mental health problems, and we know putting people with mental health problems in jail is going to make them worse. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.