Toronto South Detention Centre

Toronto South Detention Centre
Location Toronto
Status Operational
Security class Maximum/Medium
Capacity 1650+320
Opened 2014
Managed by Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

The Toronto South Detention Centre is a correctional facility in Toronto, Canada. It is a Government of Ontario-operated medium-security correctional facility for adult male inmates serving a sentence of 2-years-less-a-day or less. It is built on the site of the former Mimico Correctional Centre which closed in 2011 and whose origins dated to 1887. The Toronto South Detention Centre officially opened on January 29, 2014[1] replacing the Toronto Jail (Don Jail) and the Toronto West Detention Centre as well as the demolished Mimico Correctional Centre.[1] Toronto South is the second largest jail in Canada, only the Edmonton Remand Centre is larger.[2]

Facilities

The new facility consists of both a maximum security building, housing up to 1,650 remanded offenders awaiting trial, and a medium security building - the Toronto Intermittent Centre (TIC) - accommodating up to 320 inmates serving primarily weekend sentences. The maximum security building is the first in Ontario to be constructed from prefabricated concrete cells that can be stacked with minimal support structure.[3][4][5] Designed by Zeidler Partnership Architects, the modular cell units were built and shipped from Tindall Corporation facility in Atlanta, Georgia.

History

On May 9, 2008, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services announced plans to build a new, larger correctional centre on the site of the Mimico Correctional Centre, which will replace Mimico, the Toronto Jail, and the Toronto West Detention Centre.[6] The Mimico Correctional Centre closed on December 5, 2011.[6] Phase 1 of the new facility, the 320 bed Toronto Intermittent Centre was completed and began accepting prisoners on December 9, 2011.[6] Mimico Correctional Centre was demolished to make room for Phase 2 of the Toronto South Detention Centre which was completed in November 2012.[2][6] Toronto South Detention Centre (Phase 2) officially opened on January 29, 2014.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Toronto South Detention Centre Opens its Doors". News Release. January 29, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The $593.9M Toronto South Detention Centre, is the second largest jail in Canada. So why has it sat empty since 2012?". National Post. January 16, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Toronto South Detention Centre", MCSCS official website
  4. ↑ Toronto South Detention Centre, Infrastructure Ontario
  5. ↑ "New Mimico detention centre Ontario's first prefab prison", Toronto Star, January 23, 2011
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/corr_serv/ProposedTorontoSouthDetentionCentre/Toronto_South_DC_main.html

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