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The only semblance of freedom a man once named as the top Mafia boss in Toronto enjoyed after winning parole was the narrow view from a window as he was driven from one prison to another

Vincenzo (Jimmy) DeMaria won his fight for day parole last week, but before he could leave Collins Bay prison in Kingston, Ont., he was re-arrested by Canada Border Services Agency officers on Thursday and driven 240 kilometres east to the Central East Correctional Centre.

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There, he was placed in solitary confinement for a 14-day quarantine, as is the pandemic protocol for prisoner transfers.

While concerns over COVID-19 helped DeMaria gain his parole, the fact the same deadly contagion has been especially cruel in Italy will form a powerful argument for not sending him to the country he left as an infant, but CBSA is trying.

From prison, DeMaria is now in the midst of a detention review by the Immigration and Refugee Board, arguing for release before a much longer hearing on his status in Canada.