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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 Oakalla Prison Farm opened in 1912 and was initially designed to hold 150 men and women. In 1916, the women's section officially opened, [3] and in 1942 the woman's unit, being a whole separate facility opened on the grounds. This was renamed to the "Lakeside Correctional Centre for Women" in 1979. [4]
Treatment centres are specialized facilities treating offenders for sexual misconduct, substance abuse, anger management, and other issues. [1] Youth correctional facilities in Ontario are also called "secure custody facilities" and hold young people who were between 12 and 17 years of age at the time of offence.
Maplehurst Correctional Complex (French: Complexe Correctionnel de Maplehurst) is a correctional facility located in Milton, Ontario for women and men 18 years of age and older. It is a combined maximum security detention centre for remanded prisoners, and medium/maximum correctional centre for offenders sentenced to less than two years. It ...
Pages in category "Women's prisons in Canada" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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). Federal Correctional Facilities, which are the responsibility of Correctional Service of Canada —is concerned with people who have been sentenced to two years or ...
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 ...
Joliette Institution for Women (French: Établissement Joliette pour femmes) is a prison for women in Joliette, Quebec, northeast of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] It is operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and has a capacity of 132 prisoners.