Day: 3 July 2024

“Prison-lagers in Ontario”, class actions seeking $1.5B

TORONTO – Ontario prisons? Inhumane and poorly managed. It’s a disturbing picture the one painted by two class actions against the Province over the use of “lockdowns” in Ontario correctional facilities as a way to address emergencies or staffing shortages: a method used from 2009 to 2017, which allegedly caused harm both to the people detained in that period and to the immigrants who were held in those facilities waiting for their position to be clarified. Damages for which compensation is now being requested, precisely through the two collective legal actions.