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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]
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.
Christopher Paul Neil (born February 6, 1975 [4]), better known as Mr. Swirl Face, [5] [2] is a Canadian teacher who was convicted of child sexual abuse. [6] He was the subject of a highly publicized Interpol investigation of the child sexual abuse of at least 12 young boys in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, primarily owing to the Internet release of pornographic images depicting the abuse.
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 ...
David William Ramsay (1943–2008) was a Canadian lawyer and judge notorious for being sent to prison for sexual assault on minors, some of whom appeared before him in court. Ramsey was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia , in 1943 and moved to Port Alberni , British Columbia , with his family after World War II .
Williams died in November 1983 while in prison in Galveston, Texas, at the age of 49. The 1975 assault. On August 19, 1975, Smith, then 13, Rottler Trick, then 11, and Rottler, then 14, were ...
On December 22, 1975, Peltier was named to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. [32] On February 6, 1976, Peltier was arrested along with Frank Blackhorse by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Hinton, Alberta, Canada [33] at the Smallboy Camp, transported to Calgary, Alberta and taken to the Oakalla Prison Farm in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been ...