Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's, Newfoundland, where migrants were detained at the request of the Canada Border Services Agency.
Newfoundland and Labrador has informed the Canada Border Services Agency that it will no longer incarcerate people detained solely for immigration purposes in its provincial jails as of March 31, 2025, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada.Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's, where migrants have been detained at the request of the Canada Border Services Agency. Newfoundland and Labrador now says it will end the practice by March 31, 2025.
"With all 10 provinces now having cancelled their immigration detention agreements and arrangements, the federal government should finally guarantee through a policy directive or legislative amendment that the border agency will stop using jails for immigration detention, once and for all," said Muscati.
It's the CBSA that decides whether they're locked up in provincial jails or in one of its three federal immigration holding centres in Toronto, Laval, Que., or Surrey, B.C. That could be a person who has "prior convictions and outstanding charges for violent crimes" or someone who has demonstrated "violent, non-compliant and unpredictable behaviour," the federal border agency said.
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