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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.
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]
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). Any offender who receives a sentence less than 24 ...
the only facility for female prisoners in the province; Newfoundland and Labrador Youth Centre [12] Whitbourne: Youth St. John’s Lockup St. John’s: remand Adult males & females operated by the Adult Custody Division since 1981; a short-term holding unit for inmates remanded to await court appearance; under the auspices of His Majesty's ...
Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility replaces three former prisons located in Halifax County (Lower Sackville), Colchester County , and Kings County , all of which closed in 2001. Originally construction had begun at Jack Lake, near the Bedford Rifle Range.
A 2018 report by the Correctional Services Canada's (CSC) National Board of Investigation found that issues relating to prison management, negotiations over food service work, and "the presence of an influential inmate personality who had a history of inciting other inmates to act out" had contributed to the riot. [7] [8]
Toronto Central Prison: 1873 1915 Toronto (Don) Jail: 1864 2014 Toronto Municipal Farm for Women (Concord) 1912 1939 Toronto West Detention Centre: 1978 2014 Toronto Youth Assessment Centre (see also Mimico Correctional Centre Chronology) Trafalgar Jail Victoria Industrial School for Boys (see also Mimico Correctional Centre Chronology ...
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.