In a response to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on addressing prison overcrowding, the Global Detention Project (GDP) highlights the use of prisons and other custodial facilities for immigration detention purposes, and urges recommendations to reduce the use of such […]
Jails and Prisons
Open Letter Calling for Canada to Stop the Use of Provincial Jails for Immigration Detention
The GDP has joined 39 Canadian and international organisations in an open letter calling on Canadian authorities to cease detaining migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in provincial jails. As the GDP has previously documented, Canada has regularly attracted criticism for its persistent use of jails for immigration detention – and in particular, for its placement […]
