Toronto South Detention Centre

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The Toronto South Detention Centre is a correctional facility in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a Government of Ontario-operated maximum-security correctional facility for adult male inmates serving a sentence of 2-years-less-a-day or less, and offenders who have been remanded into custody while awaiting trial. It is built on the site of the former Mimico Correctional Centre, which closed in 2011 and whose origins dated back to 1887. The Toronto South Detention Centre officially opened on January 29, 2014 replacing the Toronto Jail, the Toronto West Detention Centre, and the demolished Mimico Correctional Centre. The Toronto South Detention Centre is the second largest jail in Canada; The Edmonton Remand Centre being the largest.FacilitiesThe new facility consists of two parts; A maximum security building that can house up to 1,650 remanded offenders awaiting trial, and a medium security building, known as the Toronto Intermittent Centre (TIC) that can house up to 320 inmates serving primarily weekend or other intermittent sentences. The maximum security building is the first in Ontario to be constructed from prefabricated concrete cells that can be stacked with a minimal support structure. Designed by Zeidler Partnership Architects, the modular cell units were built and shipped from Tindall Corporation facility in Atlanta, Georgia.