Statistics by the Ministry of Community
Safety and Corrections reveal that on an average day last year 14 of the
province's 29 jails held more prisoners than they were designed for.
The jump in overcrowding comes as no
surprise to Shawn, who was recently released from the jam-packed
Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre in London, Ont., after 18 months in
pretrial custody.
He says overcrowding forced him to flop down
on a narrow stretch of floor between two occupied beds in a cramped
seven-by-two metre cell. Lying on a thin, worn mattress he had to rest
his head next to the shared toilet.
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