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Toronto West Detention Centre

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into custody while awaiting trial or sentencing, were serving short sentences, or were awaiting transfer to federal or provincial correctional facilities. Over the years the Toronto West Detention Centre had at times also housed female and juvenile offenders. From October 1997 through January 1999
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Demolition of the Toronto West Detention Centre commenced in December 2016 with a projected finish of February 2017. The 111 Disco road site is slated to become the home of the new Toronto Young Offender Facility.
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of its security systems using up-to-date technology. The facility has also housed foreign nationals being detained on
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With a designed capacity for 631 prisoners, the Toronto West Detention Centre housed adult males who had been
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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – Modernizing the System
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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – Detention Centres
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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – Facilities
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opened to replace the Toronto West Detention Centre and the
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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
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Toronto, Ontario
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
remand
Rexdale
Toronto
Etobicoke
remanded
retrofitting
security certificates
Toronto South Detention Centre
Toronto Jail
The entrance to TWDC
Hassan Almrei
Syrian
passport
al Qaeda
forgery
Wahid Khalil Baroud
Palestine Liberation Organization
Force 17
Yasser Arafat
Laurie Bembenek
Karla Homolka
Paul Bernardo
Abdullah Khadr
Karlheinz Schreiber
German
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney

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