Over the next seven years, the province plans to add more than 1,000 new beds to its correctional facilities.
WATCH: "I'm coming for you," Doug Ford tells carjackers in Ontario, promising to build more jails – Mar 8, 2024Ontario is ramping up its short-term plans to build new jail capacity, as well as a years-long plan to build hundreds of new beds, relying in part on conversions and modular buildings as theOver the next seven years, the province plans to add more than 1,000 new beds to its correctional facilities, officials told Global News, with proposals recently drawn up to quickly...
“We have to follow the instructions of the courts that tell us who has to be in our facility and for how long,” Solicitor General Michael Kerzner told Global News. “I’m going to be building more jails and I’m not worried about the criminals,” Ford said in March, adding later that he had “directed” his solicitor general to build more jails.Get daily National news
In particular, the conversion of two separate weekend holding facilities in Toronto and London which closed down during the pandemic to full-time jails was identified to offer a short-term boost. In addition, the province is hoping to complete its long-touted Thunder Bay Correctional facility in 2026 to replace beds that will be phased out in the northern hub city, along with plans to hand out a P3 private partnership contract to build 235 new beds at the Eastern Ontario Correctional Complex.The next year, in 2027, the government is planning to finish consolidating a Brockville, Ont., facility onto another existing site.
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