The Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre opened in 1976, a nondescript squat red brick building initially designed to hold 631 prisoners. Retrofits and an expansion modernized and enlarged ...

Inmates at Toronto West Detention Centre have been denied books for much of the last two years because a volunteer who ran the library retired. At the Toronto East Detention Centre, library ...

Toronto West Detention Centre was in lockdown Wednesday following a mass walk-out of more than 100 staff at the maximum security institution. Monte Vieselmeyer, second vice president of OPSEU Local ...

The Toronto South Detention Centre has space for up to 1,650 inmates – about 500 more than the capacity of the facilities it's replacing, the Toronto West Detention Centre and the Toronto Jail ...

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 ...

Built on the site of the former Mimico Correctional Centre, which has a correctional history dating back to 1887, the TSDC replaces the Toronto Jail and the Toronto West Detention Centre. The TSDC ...

TORONTO – A correctional officer has been accused of bringing drugs and contraband items into the Toronto West Detention Centre. 33-year old Adam Bertoli of Milton, has been charged after ...

discrimination identified in review of South West Detention Centre A correctional officer (CO) at Toronto East, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing their job, agrees with many of the ...