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Adult correctional facilities in Ontario are divided into four categories: correctional centres, jails, detention centres, and treatment centres. Some facilities are more than one type. Correctional centres house sentenced offenders who are serving a period of incarceration of up to two years, less a day.
Inmates' deaths have ranged from natural causes (e.g. pneumonia) to suicide, homicide, and drug overdose. In 2018, a consolidated class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 10,000 inmates against the Government of Ontario, alleging that the dangerous conditions at EMDC amounted to systemic negligence and violated inmates' Charter rights. [41]
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).
In 2015, the Punjab and Haryana High Court held that the right of married convicts and jail inmates to have conjugal visits or artificial insemination for pregnancy was a fundamental right. [14] [15] In January 2018, Madras High court allowed a two week conjugal visit to an inmate serving life term in Tamil Nadu prison for the "purpose of ...
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.
In Canada, the criminal legal system is divided into federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions. 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).
The Toronto South Detention Centre is a correctional facility in the district of Etobicoke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is a Government of Ontario-operated maximum-security correctional facility for adult male inmates serving a sentence of up to 2-years-less-a-day, and offenders who have been remanded into custody while awaiting trial.
Beaver Creek Institution is a minimum and medium security federal prison operated by the Correctional Service of Canada in Gravenhurst, Ontario. [1] It has a rated capacity of 717 inmates. The minimum security site was opened in 1961 and currently has the capacity to house 201 inmates in five residential style units. Another 50 bed unit was ...