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Release from jail into homelessness highlighted in new report
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More than seven thousand times last year, people were released from Ontario jails with no recorded fixed address.

It’s also estimated that 80 per cent of people in Ontario’s provincial jails are there on remand.

Those are some of the details from a report from the John Howard Society of Ontario, called From Incarceration to Encampment.

People First Radio spoke about the issue with Safiyah Husein, director of policy with the John Howard Society of Ontario, and  Manj Toor, executive director of the John Howard Society of Victoria.

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