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In the past week, it’s been revealed that shower cells continued to be used at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, in direct contravention to an order by Minister Yasir Naqvi to permanently stop the practice.

Here’s what the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and Naqvi now refuse to tell us about Ottawa’s troubled jail:

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• Who is the superintendent of the jail?

• Who is currently in charge of the jail?

• Why can’t the public know who is in charge?

While the ministry won’t talk, multiple sources both inside and outside the jail told Postmedia that deputy superintendent of operations Mike Wood is now acting as superintendent. At least two staff members said they were told by sergeants that Wood is in command.

Meanwhile, the ministry won’t say what happened to Supt. Maureen Harvey – staff said they watched her leave in her car at 10:30 a.m. Thursday after a meeting with the ministry’s deputy director for eastern Ontario.