Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre

The Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre is a 450-bed maximum security jail located in London, Ontario.[1][2] Concerns have recently been raised about the security of the staff and visitors at the prison[3] as well as prison overcrowding.[4][5][6]

Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
LocationLondon, Ontario, Canada
StatusOperational
Security classMaximum
Capacity450
Opened1977
Managed byMinistry of the Solicitor General

There have been fifteen[7] deaths since 2009: Randy Drysdale (April 2009), Laura Straughan (November 2009), Adam Kargus (November 2013), Keith Patterson (September 2014), Jamie High (December 2014), Floyd Deleary (August 2015), Justin Thompson (October 2016), Raymond Major (June 2017), Mike Fall (July 2017), Murray Davis (August 2017), Ronald Jenkins (December 2017), Justin Struthers (December 2017), James Pigeau (January 2018), Sean Tourand-Brightman (March 31, 2019), and Chase Blanchard (June 22, 2019).[8][9] Inmates' deaths range from natural causes (pneumonia) to suicide/homicide and drug overdose. There is a class action lawsuit filled on behalf of 10,000 inmates for over CAD$300 million in damages against the Government of Ontario.[10]

See also.
  • List of correctional facilities in Ontario

References
  1. Adult Facilities Archived 2010-05-15 at the Wayback Machine - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
  2. "Information London".
  3. EMDC one of the Most Dangerous facilities for staff
  4. Overcrowding causing problems at EMDC
  5. Nearly half of Ontario's jails are overcrowded
  6. Judge reduces sentences because Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre overcrowded
  7. "'Outrageous': Inmate death makes 15 in past decade at London's troubled Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre".
  8. "London inmate's death occurred one day after bail denied: Sources".
  9. "Trial begins in the murder of inmate at troubled Ontario jail".
  10. "Trial begins in the murder of inmate at troubled Ontario jail".


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