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The sentence must be proportionate to the nature of the offence. The sentence must be reduced or increased depending on the mitigating and aggravating factors. The sentence must be similar to sentences imposed on similar offenders for similar offences in similar circumstances, but it remains open to the sentencing judge to deviate from the ...
The Prison for Women opened in 1934. The Archambault Commission (officially the Royal Commission to Investigate the Penal System in Canada) was established that year in response to riots, overcrowding, and strikes in Canadian prisons. The final report was published in 1938 and was the first comprehensive report in Canada to emphasize crime ...
Any offender who receives a sentence less than 24 months, or who is incarcerated while awaiting trial or sentencing, must serve their sentence in a provincial/territorial correctional facility. Members of the Canadian Armed Forces who are sentenced under military law serve their sentences at detention barracks designated by the Department of ...
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]
Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI; French: Établissement pour femmes Grand Valley [1]) is a women's prison in Kitchener, Ontario, operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). In Canada , all offenders sentenced to prison terms of greater than two years serve their time in a federal institution operated by the CSC.
A Canada women’s soccer team staff member has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence after a drone incident, the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office said.
The original prison, named the Vanier Institute for Women, was a CAD$4,000,000 facility in Brampton, Ontario, [8] that had opened on January 29, 1969. [9] The Brampton location was used to house the Ontario Women's Guidance Centre, the Ontario Women's Treatment Centre, and those from the former Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women, [4] [9] the latter residents moving into the new prison on ...
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).