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The Toronto West Detention Centre was a maximum security remand facility located in Rexdale, a community located in the north-west corner of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The facility was known as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre until Rexdale, as part of the City of Etobicoke, became part of the newly amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.
With a designed capacity for 631 prisoners, the Toronto West Detention Centre housed adult males who had been remanded 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 the facility underwent extensive retrofitting of its security systems using up-to-date technology. The facility has also housed foreign nationals being detained on security certificates.
In January 2014 the Toronto South Detention Centre opened to replace the Toronto West Detention Centre and the
* Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer, co-accused with her then husband Paul Bernardo
* Abdullah Khadr, awaiting extradition, 2004–current.
*
Canada criticized for Hassan Almrei detention
6 November 2005 * Ernst Zündel, was held at Toronto West from 2003 until his 2005 deportation
Toronto Jail
The Don Jail was a jail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located to the east of the Don River, on Gerrard Street East in the Riverdale neighbourhood. The original building was completed in 1864 and was reopened in 2013 to serve as the administrative ...
(Don Jail). The Toronto Jail was demolished and is now a vacant site situated beside the new hospital facility.
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.
Notable prisoners
* Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer, co-accused with her then husband Paul Bernardo
* Abdullah Khadr, awaiting extradition, 2004–current.
*Laurie Bembenek
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, also known as Bambi Bembenek.
* Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian businessman who is embroiled in a dispute with former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney ( ; born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political sci ...
.; later extradited to Germany
*Hassan Almrei
Hassan Ahmed Almrei ( ar, حسن أحمد المرعي also childhood name ''Abu al-Hareth'') (born in Syria on January 1, 1974),Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Hassan Almrei, February ...
, a Syria
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n national, who came to Canada in 1999 on a forged passport
A passport is an official travel document issued by a government that contains a person's identity. A person with a passport can travel to and from foreign countries more easily and access consular assistance. A passport certifies the personal ...
and was alleged to have been involved in an al Qaeda
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forgery
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ring.CTV Television Network
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Canada criticized for Hassan Almrei detention
6 November 2005 * Ernst Zündel, was held at Toronto West from 2003 until his 2005 deportation
See also
List of correctional facilities in OntarioReferences
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