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| A banner dropped in Guelph, Ontario on Wednesday in solidarity with the hunger striking detainees |
Rebel Youth Magazine
Around 200 immigration detainees have recently been moved from prisons in the Greater Toronto Area and sent to a maximum-security prison in Lindsay, Ontario, immigrant rights group No One Is Illegal has exposed.
The immigrant detainees are facing lockdowns due to understaffing of the prison, and some are unable to leave their cells for 18 hours a day. The move from prisons in the Greater-Toronto Area has resulted in greater isolation for the detainees, whose families often live in Toronto.
Almost 200 of the detainees in Lindsay have been on hunger
strike for over 10 days, since Wednesday, September 18. Strikers are calling for better access to medical
care and social workers; cheaper phone calls and access to international
calling cards; access to better food, like the food on the non-immigration
ranges; an end to constant lockdowns; and better access to legal aid and legal
services.
