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The Ottawa jail has long been the subject of controversy and criticism. From its use of shower cells and segregation of the mentally ill to its health-care services and the poor quality of the food, its lack of programming, overcrowding and alleged use of excessive force, the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre has earned a reputation from some critics as being the worst in the province.
On Thursday, the Citizen was invited behind the gates of the jail on Innes Road and allowed inside for a first-hand look at the state of the local jail. The media tour comes as the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is set to release its first quarterly report updating its progress on meeting 42 recommendations set out by a task force appointed to address overcrowding within the jail on Innes Road.
The task force was appointed after Citizen stories on inmates who were placed in shower cells because of overcrowding at the jail.
Here’s what we saw:
Signage at the main gate as officials conducted a media tour of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
Reporter Andrew Seymour looks at the body scanner within the jail.
Another photo of the jail’s body scanner.
The jail’s maximum security exercise yard.
One wing in maximum security. One wing is an area where a mixture of overflow inmates are held.
More from one wing in maximum security.
The jail’s segregation unit.
One of the jail’s notorious shower cells. The jail stopped using shower cells to house inmates after the Citizen reported about their use.
Shower cell area in maximum security where some inmates had once been sleeping on the floor.
One of the jail’s five exercise areas.
The jail’s laundry room.
Another image of one wing in maximum security.
Holding cells located outside that’s no longer in use.
Signage inside the building.
Some scratchings on a bench in a holding cell in the admitting and discharge area.
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On Thursday, the Citizen was invited behind the gates of the jail on Innes Road and allowed inside for a first-hand look at the state of the local jail. The media tour comes as the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is set to release its first quarterly report updating its progress on meeting 42 recommendations set out by a task force appointed to address overcrowding within the jail on Innes Road.
The task force was appointed after Citizen stories on inmates who were placed in shower cells because of overcrowding at the jail.
Here’s what we saw:
Signage at the main gate as officials conducted a media tour of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
Reporter Andrew Seymour looks at the body scanner within the jail.
Another photo of the jail’s body scanner.
The jail’s maximum security exercise yard.
One wing in maximum security. One wing is an area where a mixture of overflow inmates are held.
More from one wing in maximum security.
The jail’s segregation unit.
One of the jail’s notorious shower cells. The jail stopped using shower cells to house inmates after the Citizen reported about their use.
Shower cell area in maximum security where some inmates had once been sleeping on the floor.
One of the jail’s five exercise areas.
The jail’s laundry room.
Another image of one wing in maximum security.
Holding cells located outside that’s no longer in use.
Signage inside the building.
Some scratchings on a bench in a holding cell in the admitting and discharge area.
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