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Adult correctional facilities in Ontario are divided into four categories: correctional centres, jails, detention centres, and treatment centres. Some facilities are more than one type. Correctional centres house sentenced offenders who are serving a period of incarceration of up to two years, less a day.
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).
The Central East Correctional Centre (as known colloquially as the Lindsay Superjail, or simply Lindsay; French: Centre correctionnel du Centre-Est) is a maximum security Correctional Centre located in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. [1] Inmates in this facility manufacture licence plates for the province. [2]
The jail (referred to locally as "Innes") was condemned for not meeting United Nations standards for treatment of prisoners. In 2004, a defence lawyer likened it to an "Iraqi prison camp." [2] Some inmates are triple-bunked because of lack of space and overcrowding at the facility. [3] In 2016 it was revealed that showers were used as ...
Inmates Notes Fort Smith Correctional Complex [22] Fort Smith: minimum/medium Adult males & females holds territorial and federal offenders, as well as remanded inmates; male unit formerly Riverrige Correctional Centre; female unit formerly Territorial Women's Correctional Centre; North Slave Correctional Complex [23] Yellowknife: multilevel/remand
Inmates' deaths have ranged from natural causes (e.g. pneumonia) to suicide, homicide, and drug overdose. In 2018, a consolidated class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 10,000 inmates against the Government of Ontario, alleging that the dangerous conditions at EMDC amounted to systemic negligence and violated inmates' Charter rights. [41]
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.
The Central North Correctional Centre formerly known as "The Superjail" is a maximum security prison located in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada. During its period of private management from 2001 to 2006, it was the only privately-run adult correctional facility in Canada.