At least 454 people were illegally detained in Quebec for one day or more between January, 2012, and March, 2022, records show
detention centres over the last decade because of sentence miscalculations, identification mistakes and other clerical errors, documents show.
Administrative errors by correctional services, court clerks, the police and others are to blame, according to the documents, made up of 114 partly redacted pages listing hundreds of cases. The documents list people held for as little as a few minutes extra to nearly three months of lost freedom. The nature of the mistakes is not compiled and therefore, could not be shared, Ms. Léveillé said.
“It dragged on for months,” Ms. Huard said, until she and her colleague sent a formal notice to the court in March, 2022, notifying Quebec’s Minister of Justice and ombudsperson,Illegal detentions in Quebec were recently under the spotlight when Nicous D’Andre Spring, 21,with Bordeaux guards on Dec. 24, 2022. The Ministry of Public Security has acknowledged that Mr. Spring was supposed to be freed the day before and was illegally detained at the time of his death.
The highest number of cases was recorded at Bordeaux and the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre, in Montreal, but illegal detentions of at least one day occurred in nearly all of Quebec’s 18 provincial correctional institutions, where people serve sentences of less than two years or await trial. In an e-mail, Public Security spokesperson Louise Quintin maintained that errors are rare, given there were more than 400,000 admissions in provincial detention centres over the last decade.
Nonetheless, an average of 51 people per year were illegally detained for at least one day over the last decade .
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