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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).
Incarceration in Canada is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both, for the commission of an indictable offense and other offenses.. According to Statistics Canada, as of 2018/2019 there were a total of 37,854 adult offenders incarcerated in Canadian federal and provincial prisons on an average day for an incarceration rate of 127 per 100,000 population.
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).
Guelph Jail 1840 1980 Haileybury Jail 1935 1998 Halton County Jail 1863 1978 Hamilton Jail 1832 1978 Home District Jail (Toronto) 1838 1887 Huron County Gaol: 1842 1972 Invictus Youth Centre King Street Gaol: 1798 1827(?) King Street Gaol: 1824 Kingston Jail 1835 2014 Kitchener Jail 1853 1978 L'Orignal Jail: 1825 1998 Lindsay Jail 1863 2003
Head office of the Correctional Service of Canada in Ottawa. 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]
For the first time since 1990, the 2018 jail incarceration rate for African Americans fell below 600 per 100,000, while the juvenile jail population dropped 56%, from 7,700 to 3,400. [ 40 ] In 2018, sixty-eight percent of jail inmates were behind bars on felony charges, about two-thirds of the total jail population was awaiting court action or ...
Situated in the Burnside Industrial Park in Dartmouth, the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility is the largest provincial jail in Nova Scotia, having a capacity of 370 [2] (322 male, 48 female). [3]
As a result, the court ruled in June 2005 and issued an order on October 3, 2005, putting the CDCR's medical health care delivery system in receivership, citing the "depravity" of the system. [15] In February 2006, the judge appointed Robert Sillen to the position [16] and Sillen was replaced by J. Clark Kelso in January 2008. [17] Coleman v.