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The Toronto West Detention Centre (also called the West End Detention Centre or simply The West) was a maximum security remand facility located in Rexdale, a community located in the north-west corner of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The facility was known as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre until Rexdale, as part of the City of Etobicoke, became part of the newly amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998. With a designed capacity for 631 prisoners,〔(Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services - Detention Centres )〕 the Toronto West Detention Centre housed adult males who had been remanded into custody while awaiting trial or sentencing, were serving short sentences, or were awaiting transfer to federal or provincial correctional facilities.〔(Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services - Facilities )〕 Over the years the Toronto West Detention Centre had at times also housed female and juvenile offenders. From October 1997 through January 1999 the facility underwent extensive retrofitting of its security systems using up-to-date technology.〔(Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services - Modernizing the System )〕 The facility has also housed foreign nationals being detained on security certificates. In January 2014 the Toronto South Detention Centre opened to replace the Toronto West Detention Centre and the Toronto Jail (Don Jail). ==Notable prisoners== *Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer, co-accused with her then husband Paul Bernardo *Abdullah Khadr, awaiting extradition, 2004-current.〔Toronto Star, ($500,000 paid for capture of Khadr ), 13 May 2008〕 *Laurie Bembenek, also known as Bambi Bembenek. *Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian businessman who is embroiled in a dispute with former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.;〔National Post, (Karlheinz Schreiber free again on bail ) 17 April 2008〕 later extradited to Germany *Hassan Almrei, a Syrian national, who came to Canada in 1999 on a forged passport and was alleged to have been involved in an al Qaeda forgery ring.〔CTV Television Network, (Canada criticized for Hassan Almrei detention ), 6 November 2005〕 *Ernst Zündel, was held at Toronto West from 2003 until his 2005 deportation to Germany. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toronto West Detention Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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