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A look inside new superjail Toronto South Detention Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

BY TERRY DAVIDSON, TORONTO SUN<\/p>\n

TORONTO – Ontario’s newest and largest jail is almost 234,000 square-metres of concrete, steel and impenetrable Plexiglas windows and has the technology to cavity-search an inmate without laying a hand on him.<\/p>\n

It was media day at the new Toronto South Detention Centre (TSDC) in Etobicoke Thursday, where members of the press were given a limited tour of the $594 million superjail by the correctional officials who’ll be running it when the first of the 1,650 full-time inmates it is equipped to house are accepted later this year.<\/p>\n

What makes the TSDC unique, says director Rose Buhagiar, is the minimization of the otherwise risky day-to-day movement of inmates within the institution, accomplished through video-link technology for visits with inmates, open-concept cell block units, increased direct supervision, enhanced security technology and inmate programs and amenities located right inside the units their cells are in.<\/p>\n

“We are a state-of-the-art facility,” said Buhagiar of the TSDC, a maximum-security facility to house adult males of various risk levels who are in for short sentences, those awaiting trial, on immigration holds or those in transition to other institutions.<\/p>\n

Just to the right of the TSDC’s bright, open-concept reception area — which looks more like the entrance of a convention centre than a jail — is a room containing rows of video booths where visitors communicate with inmates using similar booths within their units.<\/p>\n

Just inside the jail’s internal security perimeter on the first floor is what one official described as the TSDC’s “nerve centre,” a darkened room filled with video monitors.<\/p>\n

The TSDC, which will replace the aging Don Jail and the Toronto West Detention Centre and attempt to relieve overcrowding, also boasts 54 program rooms, including libraries, a ventilated room for Aboriginal smudging sessions, and a multi-faith prayer room with a footwash station for Muslim inmates.<\/p>\n

Down the hall — one of many white, imposing corridors with windows of clear, double-layered Plexiglas and metal bars — is the intake unit, which includes two Body Orifice Scanning System chairs equipped with metal detectors to search for any small weapons hidden in rectal or oral openings. In fact, all Ontario institutions were equipped with BOSS chairs in 2008, spokesman Brent Ross said.<\/p>\n

The average inmate will be housed in one of 32 Direct Supervision Units, open-concept cell blocks of white and purple, each containing inmates’ cells, a guard station, a handful of metal tables and chairs, TVs, and a seating area of unmovable rubberized chairs.<\/p>\n

Off to the side of most units are ‘yards’ — small, concrete-enclosed areas with a basketball hoop and fencing on the ceiling for fresh air.<\/p>\n

There is also a a 48-bed special-handling unit for inmates new to prison life and for those at risk of harm in general population. There is also a segregation unit, a mental-health facility, and a 35-bed infirmary with a nursing station, cells containing beds with guard rails, and a highly-restricted pharmacy.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2013\/10\/03\/toronto-south-detention-centre-set-to-open<\/p>\n

New Toronto South Detention Centre almost ready to open<\/strong><\/p>\n

By David Shum Global News<\/p>\n

TORONTO \u2013 Convicted criminals in Ontario will have a new place to call home very soon.<\/p>\n

The Toronto South Detention Centre in Etobicoke is set to open later this fall and is considered a \u201cstate-of-the-art\u201d facility.<\/p>\n

Media crews were given a tour inside the building on Thursday, which is located at the former Mimico Correctional Centre.<\/p>\n

The new prison will replace the ageing Toronto Don Jail and the Toronto West Detention Centre.<\/p>\n

Construction of the prison was announced back on May 9, 2008 by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.<\/p>\n

The detention centre was built with a private-public partnership at a cost of $594 million that includes designing, building, financing and a 30 year maintenance contract.<\/p>\n

The prison has a 1,650 bed capacity and offers a number of specialized programs for offenders, including a mental health assessment unit, special needs unit and an Aboriginal program area.<\/p>\n

The new facility has an open concept public reception area and used bricks from the former Mimico bricks works company in the lobby of the building.<\/p>\n

Some of the new design and technological features of the TSDC include x-ray devices and metal detectors, 70 video visit terminals for public use, and videoconferencing for routine bail and remand hearings.<\/p>\n

New Toronto South Detention Centre almost ready to open<\/a><\/p>\n

A Tour of the New Toronto South Detention Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toronto’s new super prison is impressive, but also a little disturbing.
\nBY TODD AALGAARD \u2022 PHOTOS BY GIORDANO CIAMPINI<\/p>\n

From a distance, the site of the new Toronto South Detention Centre\u2014occupying the same land used for correctional purposes since 1887\u2014is exactly what you\u2019d expect the environs of a prison to look like.<\/p>\n

Most recently the address of the Mimico Correctional Centre\u2014which officially closed its doors on December 5, 2011\u2014the new, imposing structure at 160 Horner Road (beside the Etobicoke railway tracks, two right-hand turns off the Lakeshore) has a monolithic quality to it, almost brutal in its massive, looming presence. The stated intent of its design, officials say, is to blend seamlessly into the landscape. But there\u2019s absolutely no subterfuge or subtlety to its purpose.<\/p>\n

We, along with other media, had the chance to tour the prison earlier today.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s a testament to what technology can do for a detention facility. Yes, there\u2019s clearly a lot of progressive, innovative thinking that went into its construction, enough to qualify the design for LEED contention, at any rate.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s a place where human beings are stacked and punitively filed away, and every forward-thinking idea showcased within its walls reinforces that fact. The need for justice aside, that\u2019s hard to ignore\u2014especially these days.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Toronto South Detention Centre] is the model for institutions like this for years to come,\u201d said Bruce O\u2019Neill, Senior Communications Coordinator with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Clearly, there\u2019s plenty inside to make the new institution the envy of every prison in Canada: the video-conferencing system that ensures inmates never have to leave their cell block to connect with loved ones, the modular construction that can allow for relative ease of expansion, should the need arise. Even with space for 1,650 inmates\u2014along with the 320 already serving time at the Toronto Intermittent Centre, an adjoining facility\u2014the place could always be bigger.<\/p>\n

Past the area where busloads of inmates are received, strip-searched, and, in some cases, subjected to body-cavity searches using devices called \u201cBOSS Chairs\u201d\u2014an informal acronym for \u201cBody Orifice Scanners,\u201d which resemble shoe-shine stands\u2014the space seems to steadily constrict.<\/p>\n

Some inmates may never leave these cell blocks during the length of their sentences, officials said. Even an \u201copen-air exercise yard\u201d is little more than a chamber, about half the size of a basement apartment, with metal meshwork open to the outside. Efficiency, not amenities, seems to be what makes this place an exemplar of Canadian corrections.<\/p>\n

This utilitarian ethos earned the Toronto South Detention Centre some of its earliest media coverage in 2011. That January, reports described the modular, lego-like construction as a \u201cfirst for the province, if not the country.\u201d Pre-fabricated pieces of the building were trucked in from Atlanta starting that year.<\/p>\n

None of this is to suggest some nefarious, dark-hooded intent on behalf of the men and women who physically run the place. For all the brutalism of the institution, there\u2019s still a sweat lodge on the grounds for Aboriginal detainees, and the facility\u2019s overseers are in active discussions with local school boards to give the prison\u2019s educational programs a shot in the arm. In measurable ways, the progressiveness of the design matches a certain evolved thinking about prisons.<\/p>\n

But in our current national context, with immigration raids becoming so commonplace as to be televised spectacles, it\u2019s the looming role of the Toronto South Detention Centre (in partnership with Canadian Border Services) that rings most uncomfortably. Behind these walls, men and women swept up in the state\u2019s immigration dragnet will be interned\u2014perhaps as long as it takes to kick them out of the country, perhaps longer.<\/p>\n

Every steel door and cold examination table we saw sharpened this thought. Biking away from the facility, its silhouette imposed over a skyline of grain elevators, it was disturbing\u2014for lack of a better word\u2014to imagine refugees seeing this tangle of human and industrial intersections as their last taste of Canada, the city hanging in the background, as far away as it\u2019s ever been.<\/p>\n

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