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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).
Millhaven Institution (French: Établissement de Millhaven) is a maximum security prison located in Bath, Ontario. Approximately 500 inmates are incarcerated at Millhaven. [1] Opened in 1971, Millhaven was originally built to replace Ontario's other aging maximum security prison, Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston Ontario.
Nunavut prisons, as of September 2021 [25] Name Location Security Inmates Notes Aaqqigiarvik Correctional Healing Facility (ACHF) Iqaluit: minimum-maximum Adult males (143) opened in 1986 (as Baffin Correctional Centre) Kugluktuk Ilavut Centre (KIC) Kugluktuk: minimum (halfway house) Adult males (15) opened in 2005
Maximum security prisons and supermax prisons are grades of high security level used by prison systems in various countries, which pose a higher level of security to prevent prisoners from escaping and/or doing harm to other inmates or security guards. For the United States, see Incarceration in the United States § Security levels
The Institution (medium-security) began operations in 1877, making it the oldest running federal prison in Canada following the closure of Ontario's Kingston Penitentiary on 30 September 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Immediately adjacent to Stony Mountain Institution is the Rockwood Institution , a minimum-security facility established in 1962. [ 2 ]
In March 2004, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the closing of the Salmonier Correctional Institute, a minimum security prison farm, located on the outskirts of St. John's. [80] On June 13, 2003, August Zarpa, an Inuk inmate at the Labrador Correctional Centre, committed suicide leading to a judicial inquiry. Zarpa was ...
Toronto Central Prison: 1873 1915 Toronto (Don) Jail: 1864 2014 Toronto Municipal Farm for Women (Concord) 1912 1939 Toronto West Detention Centre: 1978 2014 Toronto Youth Assessment Centre (see also Mimico Correctional Centre Chronology) Trafalgar Jail Victoria Industrial School for Boys (see also Mimico Correctional Centre Chronology ...
The Toronto South Detention Centre is a correctional facility in the district of Etobicoke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is a Government of Ontario-operated maximum-security correctional facility for adult male inmates serving a sentence of up to 2-years-less-a-day, and offenders who have been remanded into custody while awaiting trial.