Jails readied for hundreds of Tamil migrants
Upward of 250 male and female Tamil migrants will likely spend several months in a pair of overcrowded jails in Metro Vancouver, according to municipal and corrections sources who have been briefed on the imminent arrival of a vessel bound for British Columbia.
Wardens at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women and the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre — which for three months last fall hosted 76 Tamil migrants who arrived in Canada aboard the Ocean Lady — told the District of Maple Ridge late last week that “somewhere in the order of 80 females and 100 males” would soon arrive at the facilities, a spokesperson for the district said.
But Mr. Purdy said the union is “concerned about overcrowding no matter where [the migrants] end up” because all nine of the province’s correctional facilities are “operating at close to 200% above capacity” — including the Alouette facility, the Fraser centre and the Vancouver Island centre, where Ocean Lady migrants were first processed before being bused to the Fraser facility last fall.
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That is going to be one full jail if it is already at 200% capacity.