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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]
Women have served as prison and correctional officers since the early 19th century in London. The focus of research on female correctional officers has mostly been comparatively discussing the male officers' experience versus the female officer's experience. A number of studies are extensions of interviews or surveys solely of corrections staff ...
Margaret Mick (1 June 1860 – 25 May 1925) was Canada's first female peace officer to be killed in the line of duty. On the night of Monday, May 25, 1925 Mick, who worked as a Matron, was the only staff member on duty at the Toronto Municipal Jail Farm for Women in Concord, Ontario.
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.
Rose Fortune was the first Canadian female to act in the capacity of a police officer. She was also a businesswoman who had been born into slavery and was relocated at age 10 to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, as part of the Black Loyalist migration. In the early 19th century Rose Fortune began setting curfews at the wharves and the surrounding ...
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 ...
The Prison For Women ("P4W"; French: Prison des femmes [1]), located in Kingston, Ontario, was a Correctional Service of Canada prison for women that functioned at a maximum security level from 1934 to 2000. Known for its controversial legacy and significance as Canada's only federal-level penitentiary for women until 2000, the institution ...
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.