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Mary Steinhauser (August 25, 1942 – June 11, 1975) was a Canadian social worker and prison classification officer who was killed during a hostage-taking at the B.C. Penitentiary in 1975. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On June 9, 1975, Steinhauser was one of 15 people that were taken hostage by three inmates, Andy Bruce, Dwight Lucas and Claire Wilson, who were ...
The British Columbia Penitentiary (BC Penitentiary, commonly referred to as the BC Pen and the Pen) was a federal maximum security prison located in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. The BC Penitentiary operated for 102 years, from 1878 until it was decommissioned in 1980. It was the first federal penal institution west of Manitoba. [1]
April 8, 1975 Killed with a hammer by an inmate. [3] Correctional Officer Roy W. Eddy Pacific Regional Psychiatric Centre, Abbotsford, British Columbia: June 6, 1975 Heart attack while struggling with an inmate. [3] Joseph A.P. Gosselin Archambault Penitentiary, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec June 27, 1975 Shot by inmate. [3]
Based on the theatrical play by Christian Bruyère, the film is a dramatization of the British Columbia Penitentiary hostage incident of 1975. [ 1 ] The film stars Winston Rekert as Danny Baker, the fictionalized version of prisoner Andy Bruce, and Andrée Pelletier as Joan Tremblay, the fictionalized version of social worker and hostage Mary ...
The Oakalla Prison Farm (also known as the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre or LMRCC) [2] was a model prison farm on 185 acres (75 ha) of land next to Deer Lake, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The Oakalla Prison Farm opened in 1912 and was initially designed to hold 150 men and women.
Richard Pierce speaks to his attorney on April 19, 2022, during the opening day of a cold-case murder from 1975 at the Door County Justice Center in Sturgeon Bay. Pierce was convicted on charges ...
He was serving 59 unappealable sentences totaling 529 years in prison at the time of his death. [28] Marcelo Moren Brito: 2015-09-11 Chile: Multiple organ failure [29] Retired Army colonel and former agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional: He was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison. [29] Sarah Reed: 2016-01-11 United Kingdom
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).