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636. Population. 455. Opened. October 15, 1967. Managed by. Correctional Service of Canada. The Springhill Institution ( French: Établissement de Springhill [1]) is a Canadian federal corrections facility located in the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia .
Springhill, Nova Scotia. / 45.667°N 64.067°W / 45.667; -64.067. Springhill is a community located in central Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The community was founded as "Springhill Mines". Coal mining led to economic growth, with its incorporation as a town in 1889. [3] [4] The mines in the Springhill coalfield were ...
This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada, all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Any offender who receives a sentence less than 24 ...
Correctional Service of Canada. The Correctional Service of Canada ( CSC; French: Service correctionnel du Canada ), also known as Correctional Service Canada or Corrections Canada, is the Canadian federal government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted criminal offenders sentenced to two years or more. [ 3]
Provincial correctional services in Canada. In Canada, the criminal legal system is divided into federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions. Provincial/territorial correctional facilities hold people who have been sentenced to less than two years in custody and people being held on remand (waiting trial or sentencing). Federal ...
Medium security (formerly maximum) Capacity. 392. Opened. July 14, 1880. Managed by. Correctional Service of Canada. The Dorchester Penitentiary ( French: Pénitencier de Dorchester) is a Canadian federal corrections facility located in the village of Dorchester, New Brunswick. It shares a property with Westmorland Institution and Shepody ...
Springhill Coal Mining is a National Historic Site of Canada located on the corner of Industrial Park Drive and Memorial Crescent in Springhill, Nova Scotia. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The Historic Site, designated in 1998, consists of a museum and the land that once contained the Springhill Coal Mines. [ 1][ 2] Springhill was once one of the most important ...
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has a historical system of 18 counties that originally had appointed court systems for local administration before the establishment of elected local governments in 1879. The historical counties continue as census divisions used by Statistics Canada in administering the Canadian census .