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The province won’t say exactly who is in charge at Ottawa’s beleaguered jail.

A day after it emerged that inmates were still being placed in shower cells despite a direct order that the controversial practice stop, staff at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre said the ministry’s deputy director for eastern Ontario, Randy Denis, was at the jail Thursday for a meeting with Supt. Maureen Harvey.

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Following the meeting, Harvey left the jail around 10:30 a.m. and drove away in her car, according to multiple sources. No explanation was provided for her sudden departure.

When Postmedia asked the ministry if Harvey was still in charge, it refused to say, “It would be inappropriate to discuss human resource matters, matters related to individual employees or matters related to an ongoing investigation.”

When asked the more general question of exactly who the current superintendent of the jail is, the ministry still wouldn’t answer. The names of superintendents and their deputies are routinely listed on the Ontario government’s own website — the information isn’t usually a closely guarded secret.