Ontario will expand its vastly overcrowded jails by 2,500 beds over the next 10 years at a cost of $3 billion to the taxpayers, the province’s solicitor general said Thursday. Michael Kerzner said the province will build new jails, expand current ones and reopen a few that have closed in Walkerton, Ont., and Brampton, Ont. […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his government’s plan to build many more jails, saying the billions in cost will be worth it. Ontario’s jails are well over capacity and the overcrowding has been worsening for years under Ford’s tenure as premier. The province plans to add upward of 6,000 new jail beds by 2050, government […]