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Kent Institution (French: Établissement de Kent) is a Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) facility located in Agassiz, British Columbia. Opened in 1979, Kent is the only maximum security federal penitentiary in the CSC's Pacific region, which includes the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory.
Beginning in 1831, the prison became the place of execution for those condemned to death in the county of Kent. Before 1868, executions were done in public outside the prison's main gate. After the passing of the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 , subsequent executions took place inside the prison, the last was in 1930.
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HM Prison Ford is an example of a Category D prison. They are the equivalent of a minimum security work release prison or local jail in the United States for example. Adult women in England and Wales are categorised with four slightly different types of security levels, from lowest to highest being Open, Closed, Restricted Status and Category A ...
HM Prison Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster) is a Category D men's prison, located close to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Standford Hill forms part of the Sheppey prisons cluster, which also includes HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
East Sutton Park Prison is based in and around an Elizabethan brick house, East Sutton Park, dating from 1570 [1] and overlooking the Weald of Kent. The building was requisitioned at the start of World War II, first opened as a borstal for girls in 1946, then was re-registered to take both juvenile and adult females some years later.
HM Prison Swaleside is a Category B men's prison, located close to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Swaleside forms part of the Sheppey prison cluster, which also includes HMP Elmley and HMP Standford Hill .
HM Prison Rochester (formerly known as Borstal Convict Prison and Borstal Institution) is a male Young Offenders Institution, founded in 1874, and located in the Borstal area of Rochester in Kent, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is located next to HMP Cookham Wood.