Substance Abuse: Romero and County Canada

substance abuse: NICHOLAS KEUNG / TORONTO STAR Order this photo By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Sun., June 18, 2017 Detention facilities should allow inmates to make overseas calls and must crack down on drug smuggling into jails, a coroner's inquest has recommended, according to Toronto Star. Those were two of the six recommendations the jury made at the inquest in the death of Francisco Romero Astorga, an immigration detainee suffering from depression and substance abuse. Supplied photo Esteban Romero Astorga, brother of Francisco Romero Astorga, says after his brother's first trip to Canada he couldn't stop talking about what a great county Canada was. The three-woman, two-man panel did not make any recommendations on the detention practices of the Canada Border Services Agency as the coroner's office restricted the scope of the inquiry to the events after Astorga was arrested and held at the Maplehurst Correctional Centre, a maximum security detention facility in Milton. Astorga, a 39-year-old Chilean, was held in custody for an immigration violation for 59 days and died of an overdose of fentanyl and methamphetamine on March 13, 2016 while in custody. The border agency uses provincial jails to house detainees when there is an overflow at its own holding centres or when a detainee poses dangers to others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.