Day Limit: Detention Centre and Immigrant Detentions

day limit: Ralph Goodale speaks with the media in the House of Commons, June 15, according to Huffington Post Canada. The organization says it has been in daily contact with the detainees, who are demanding a meeting with Public Safety minister Ralph Goodale, an end to immigrants being detained in maximum security facilities and a 90-day limit on immigrant detentions in general. Immigrant and refugee rights group No One Is Illegal says approximately 50 men at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay and the Toronto East Detention Centre began refusing food on July 11, but that several have since decided to resume eating. Dan Brien, a spokesman for the minister, says the organization is overestimating the number of detainees on hunger strike. He also said none of the participants have been at the Toronto East facility. Brien said there were initially 41 detainees on hunger strike and that only two men are still refusing meals. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.