'Deplorable' conditions reported at Toronto South Detention Centre

The Toronto South Detention Centre in Toronto is shown on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. The facility is slated to open this fall. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan DenetteA growing number of judges presiding over Ontario's criminal cases have joined inmates in calling out "deplorable" conditions at the Toronto South Detention Centre.

“A lot of people aren't taking into consideration the conditions that we're locked down in every day, every night,” Robinson said. “I’ve seen it slowly take away any type of humanity.” During these lockdowns, inmates are held for hours, “sometimes days,” in windowless cells. They are restricted from rehabilitation programs, religious observance, showers, cleaning products, laundry, visits and telephone calls with loved ones, fresh air, and meetings and telephone calls with their lawyer until the lockdown is lifted, she wrote.on the conditions at TSDC.

Wong-Tam pointed to staffing issues as a root cause, claiming the lockdowns were in part becoming so frequent due to a lack of correctional staff needed to properly operate the facility. “Even if pre-trial detention conditions were rendered more humane, the decision to deprive someone of their liberty before they have had a trial and the Crown has proven its case should be made sparingly,” the judge wrote. “Given the utterly dehumanizing conditions at the TSDC, it must be made even rarer until those conditions improve.”

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