Eleven inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre have been mistakenly released in the past 2½ years, CBC Hamilton has learned.
The statistics, obtained by CBC through a freedom of information request, don’t detail exactly when or how the improper releases occurred, but show the total since 2016.
Since 2021, there have been 11 mistaken releases of inmates:
Five in 2021.Five in 2022.One in 2023, the only release that led to police notifying the public.
The figures show there were three inmates improperly released in 2017, bringing the total to 14 accidental releases in six years.
Comparatively, there have only been two improper releases from the Niagara Detention Centre since 2016.
The one case
