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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).
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).
A detention center, or detention centre, is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean: A jail or prison, a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment after being convicted of crimes; A structure for immigration detention; An ...
Maplehurst Correctional Complex was built in the mid-1970s as a replacement for several older facilities including the Milton Jail, Halton County Jail, and the Mimico Correctional Centre, although the latter ultimately remained open. John Main was the facility's first administrator (warden), and came over from Mimico.
Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre Hamilton: 1978 [3] Kenora Jail Kenora: 1929 [3] Maplehurst Correctional Complex: Milton: 1975 Monteith Correctional Complex: Iroquois Falls: 1938 Niagara Detention Centre Thorold: 1973 [3] North Bay Jail: North Bay: 1930 Ontario Correctional Institute Brampton: 1973 [3] Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre ...
The detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, remand prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. The length of detention of suspected terrorists , with the justification of taking an action that would aid counter-terrorism , varies according to country or situation, as well ...
The New Brunswick Training School, also known as the Kingsclear Youth Training Centre, was a youth detention centre in Kingsclear, New Brunswick, Canada, about 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Fredericton. It closed in 1998 following an inquiry into abuse there. [1] It was set to close in late 1997, and was to be succeeded by a new facility in Miramichi. [2]
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.