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‘I’m not a criminal’: Jailed with no charge, no sentence, no oversightMasoud Hajivand is one of more than 200 immigration detainees held in Ontario's notoriously crowded jails, many of them without charge. All of them, Global News has learned, have been hidden for years from Red Cross attempts to ascertain their well-being.CanadaNov 5, 2014
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Deaths in detention: CBSA’s fatal failure to learn from its mistakesGlobal News analysis of coroner's reports has found CBSA's failure to learn from its own mistakes may have contributed to more deaths.CanadaNov 5, 2014
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Canada pays thousands of Roma to abandon refugee appeals, leave countryCanada has paid millions of dollars to more than 3,600 people to abandon refugee appeals and leave the country. Most of those people are Roma.CanadaNov 5, 2014
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Canada’s Unwanted: Non-citizens paid to leave, jailed without charge, die in secretMonths-long Global News investigation uncovers Canada's questionable practices when it comes to refugee claimants and immigration detainees.CanadaNov 5, 2014
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Detainees’ hunger strike in Lindsay, Ont., jail down to two holdouts, officials sayA hunger strike by immigration detainees jailed in Lindsay, Ont. has passed the two-week mark, but details are hard to come by.CanadaJul 26, 2016
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Feds to ‘dramatically reduce’ jailing of immigration detainees: GoodaleOttawa plans to mostly phase out holding immigration detainees in provincial jails, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told reporters Wednesday in Ottawa.CanadaJun 16, 2016
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Public safety minister wants to end jailing of child migrants, increase CBSA oversightPublic Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says changes are coming to Canada's immigration detention system.PoliticsMay 30, 2016
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‘Jails are not hospitals’: Health workers call for end to incarcerating sick detaineesProvincial and federal governments are under renewed pressure to stop putting immigration detainees with severe mental illness in jail and solitary confinement indefinitely.CanadaMay 17, 2016
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A severely sick man spent 400 days in solitary. This isn’t an anomaly: In Canada, it’s commonSevere illness was the reason Canada's border police put him in jail. It was the reason, once in jail, he was placed in solitary confinement.CanadaApr 29, 2016
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Dead immigration detainee Francisco Astorga was arrested stealing food, said he was suicidalA Chilean immigration detainee who died at the Maplehurst jail near Toronto Sunday was arrested in January while stealing food and told police he was depressed and suicidal, Immigration and Refugee Board documents show.CanadaMar 16, 2016
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