Data shows most of Ontario’s jails are well over capacity, and 81 per cent of inmates held are awaiting trial and presumptively innocent.
The data obtained through freedom-of-information laws shows Ontario’s jails have seen a dramatic increase in the number of inmates over the past year.
As of last September, there was an average of eight-thousand, 889 people in provincial jails — well over the seven-thousand, 848 person capacity.
Overall, the jails were operating at 113 per cent capacity at that time.
