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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.
Saanich Prison Farm (1913-16) Colquitz Centre for the Criminally Insane (1916-1954) Provincial Government Pheasant Farm (1918-1919) Colquitz Provincial Mental Home (1919-1964) Oakalla Prison Farm, Vancouver Island Unit (1964-1966) Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (1966-present) Warden: Sukhdeep Saini: City: Victoria, BC: State/province
Until 1961, the prison incorporated a farm, located across the street from the penitentiary, where some inmates would be assigned to work. The farm produced a sizeable portion of the food used use in the institution's kitchen. [7] The farm was economically viable into the late 1950s. [8]
Arrests for charges under the Act were few until 1921, when a raid on the village of Memkumlis held by Chief Dan Cranmer saw the arrest and charges laid against 45 people; of these 22 were given suspended sentences (three were remanded on appeal) and 20 men and women sent to Oakalla Prison in Burnaby. The sentences were two months for first ...
For instance, about a dozen state prison farms, including operations in Texas, Virginia, Kentucky and Montana, have sold more than $60 million worth of cattle since 2018. As with other sales, the ...
The men, most of whom are Black, work on the farm of the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison known as Angola -- the site of a former slave plantation -- hoeing, weeding and picking crops by hand ...
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Woolley was a Correctional Officer by day and sports enthusiast by night. Woolley worked at Oakalla Prison Farm [2] in Burnaby, BC from 1976 until its closing in 1992.Harry was then transferred to work at the new Fraser Regional Correctional Centre [3] in Maple Ridge, British Columbia where he worked until his official retirement in 2002.