Immigration Detention in NS

East Coast Prison Justice Society and Halifax Refugee Clinic, in coalition with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have been campaigning to end immigration detention in NS jails since the spring.

Immigration detention has egregious effects on the psychosocial and physical health, and basic dignity, of migrants seeking refuge in Canada -- and provincial jails afford the harshest form of detention in Canada.

Today we congratulate Nova Scotia on becoming the second province in Canada to give notice that it is ending its immigration detention contract with the federal government, through which migrants are incarcerated in provincial jails based on their immigration status.

For more info: https://www.eastcoastprisonjustice.ca/