Food Strike at Ontario Correctional Institute in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak
April 16, 2020: Prisoners refuse to eat meals in cafeteria following a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Hunger Strike at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario
October 16-29, 2016: Immigrant detainees re-launch their hunger strike (which had ended in July) in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End Immigration Detention
Hunger Strikes at Two Immigrant Detention Centers in Ontario
July 11-29, 2016: A group of immigrant detainees in two facilities in Ontario participate in a coordinated hunger strike in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End
Protest at Toronto South Detention Centre
June 9, 2016: As many as 160 prisoners at the Toronto South Detention Centre refused to return to their cells in protest of inhuman conditions caused, in part, by frequent lockdowns. Prisoner sat in the prison yard during the protest.
Uprising at Thunder Bay Jail District, Ontario
December 7, 2015: At least 70 prisoners take control of the top floor of the jail and leave it "destroyed." They take a guard hostage and make demands in a riot that lasts over 12 hours. Eventually, tactical units from several cities respond to the riot and regain control of
Hunger Strikes at Toronto South Detention Centre
August 18 - August 21, 2015 & November 18 - November 20, 2015: Prisoners at the Toronto South Detention Centre stage a series of hunger strikes to protest inhuman conditions at the new superjail that has been deemed a "$1-billion hellhole" by the media. Prisoners complain
Uprising at Central North Correctional Centre, Ontario
June 19, 2015: Forty-five inmates in two separate units of a maximum-security facility in Penetanguishene engaged in a six-hour long uprising causing an estimated $50,000 in damage, according to the president of the union that represents prison employees.
Uprising at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario
February 6, 2014: Kawartha Lakes Police responded with a heavy police presence to a disturbance at Central East Correctional Centre. According to prison officials, inmates in one unit of the prison reportedly started multiple small fires and damaged their cells and the unit
Protest at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario
September 20, 2013: About 200 immigrant detainees stage a protest and hunger strike in response to a recent mass transfer and the prison conditions that denied them access to their legal counsel, family visitation, and recreational programming. Due to the lack off
