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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).
Matsqui Institution is a federal medium-security prison facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, about 70 kilometres east of Vancouver. The Institution is operated by the Correctional Service of Canada and was opened in 1966. Accommodations for the general population are provided in a three-story living unit with a central core of ...
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]
[1] The institution was the site of a COVID-19 outbreak, where at least 133 inmates and staff had tested positive for the virus, with one death. [2] [3] The Provincial Health Services Authority's Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) was set up in a secure area at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, in order to assist with controlling the outbreak. [4]
Matsqui municipality, the original Village of Abbotsford and the former District of Sumas and adjoining unincorporated areas, mostly Sumas Mountain, formed the Central Fraser Valley Regional District prior to the expansion of Greater Vancouver Regional District, and now are part of the Fraser Valley Regional District which includes Mission, British Columbia, and unincorporated areas to its ...
Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia next to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver, and the Fraser River.With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. [3]
In 1929, the site operated as a farm, producing 9000 eggs/week and a heard of 300 cattle until the Provincial Gaol Service and Parole Branch united to form the BC Corrections branch in 1970. The facility was then rebranded as the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Center and reverted to its original use as a correctional centre.
The Voices of the Valley exhibition was developed in conjunction with the Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford Museum Society, [2] now Heritage Abbotsford Society, [3] which operates Trethewey House Heritage Site. The Reach offers a robust annual schedule of events and programs that includes professional talks, panel discussions, classes, workshops, tours ...