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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]
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
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.
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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]
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.