List of Prisons of Canada

List of Prisons of Canada

Ontario

Men’s (Federal)

Kingston Penitentiary (Maximum)
Millhaven Institution (Maximum)
Regional Treatment Centre (Maximum)
Collins Bay Institution (Medium)
Fenbrook Institution (Medium)
Joyceville Institution (Medium)[1]
Warkworth Institution (Medium)
Bath Institution (Minimum)
Beaver Creek Institution (Minimum)
Frontenac Institute (Minimum)
Pittsburgh Institute (Minimum)

Men’s (Provincial)

Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre
Brantford Jail
Brockville Jail
Central East Correctional Centre
Central North Correctional Centre
Chatham Jail
Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
Fort Frances Jail
Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre
Kenora Jail
Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Mimico Correctional Centre
Monteith Correctional Complex
Niagara Detention Centre
North Bay Jail
Ontario Correctional Institute
Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Owen Sound Jail
Quinte Detention Centre
St. Lawrence Valley Correctional & Treatment Centre
Sarnia Jail
Stratford Jail
Sudbury Jail
Thunder Bay Correctional Centre
Thunder Bay Jail
Toronto (Don) Jail
Toronto East Detention Centre
Toronto West Detention Centre
Walkerton Jail
Windsor Jail

Women’s (Federal)

Grand Valley Institution for Women (multi)
Isabel McNeil House (Minimum, Closed Dec 2008)

Women’s (Provincial)

Vanier Centre for Women

Quebec

Men’s

Donnacona Institution (Maximum)
Port-Cartier Institution (Maximum)
Regional Reception Centre (Maximum)
Archambault Institution (Medium)
Cowansville Institution (Medium)
Drummondville Institution (Medium)
La Macaza Institution (Medium)
Leclerc Institution (Medium)
Bordeaux – (Minimum)
Federal Training Centre (Minimum)
Montée Saint-François Institution (Minimum)
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Institution (Minimum), also location of super-max Special Handling Unit
Rivière-des-Prairie (RDP) Institution (Minimum)
Talbot Institution (Minimum)

Women’s

Joliette Institution (Multi)
Centre de Detention Tanguay (Multi)

Atlantic

Men’s

Atlantic Institution (Maximum, federal, in Renous, New Brunswick)
Dorchester Penitentiary (Medium, federal, in Dorchester, New Brunswick)
Her Majesty’s Penitentiary (Medium-Maximum, provincial, in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Springhill Institution (Medium, federal, in Springhill, Nova Scotia)
Westmorland Institution (Minimum, federal, in Dorchester, New Brunswick)
Saint John Correctional Facility (Multi-level, provincial, in Saint John, New Brunswick)

Women’s

Nova Institution for Women (Minimum/medium, federal, in Truro, Nova Scotia)

Both sexes

Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility (Medium, provincial, in Burnside Park)
East Coast Forensic Hospital

Prairie

Men’s

Edmonton Institution (Maximum)
Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary (Medium/Maximum)
Brandon Correctional Centre (Remand/Medium)
Stony Mountain Institution (Medium)
Headingley Correctional Centre (Remand/Medium)
Drumheller Institution (Medium/Minimum)
Bowden Institution (Medium/Minimum)
Grande Cache Institution (Medium)
Riverbend Institution (Minimum)
Rockwood Institution (Minimum)
Pê Sà¢kà¢stêw Centre (Minimum)
Grierson Centre (Minimum)
Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies) (Multi)
Willow Cree Healing Lodge (Minimum)

Women’s

Edmonton Institution for Women (Multi)
Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge (Medium/Minimum)

Pacific

Men’s

Regional Treatment Centre / Pacific Institution & Regional Reception Centre
Kent Institution (Maximum)
Matsqui Institution (Medium)
Mountain Institution (Medium)
Mission Institution (Medium)
William Head Institution (Minimum)
Kwà¬kwèxwelhp Healing Village (Minimum)
Ferndale Institution (Minimum)

Women’s

Fraser Valley Institution for Women

See Also

List of Prisons
List of Canada online resources
List of Canadian Reports
List of Titles of Halsburys Laws of Canada
Anton Praetorius (early prison reformer)
Community service
Corrections
Department of Corrections
Gaol Fever (An illness commonly found in pre-industrial age prisons)
Howard League for Penal Reform (oldest prison reform organisation in the world)
Incarceration of women
Inmate telephone system
Jailhouse lawyer
John Howard (prison reformer)
Juvenile delinquency
Kishka (prison cell)
List of countries by incarceration rate
Mental Illness in prison[18]
Penal labour
Penology
Prison abolition movement
Prison Act
Prison education
Prison escape
Prison food
Prison gang
Prison officer
Prison rape
Prison reform
Prison religion
Prison sexuality (homosexuality and abuse in prisons)
Prison uniform
Prisoner
Prisoner’s dilemma
Prisoners’ rights
Punishment
Rehabilitation (penology)
Stanford prison experiment
Yardbird
Types of imprisonment
False imprisonment
House arrest
Life imprisonment
Protective custody
Remand
Separate system
Solitary confinement

Types of prisons
Boot camp
Borstal
Death Row
Federal prison
Immigration detention
Mental hospital
Military prison
Panopticon
Penal colony
Political prison
Private prisons
Roundhouse
Supermax
Village lock-up
Youth detention center

International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics
International Crime law resources
Crime against international law
Transnational crime
List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Criminal Law Online Journals
International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics
International Criminal Law
List of Criminal Biographies (Gangs) Entries
List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of international public law topics
List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries
List of Murders and Assassins
List of main cases in the Encyclopedia

Further Reading

Encyclopedia of Gangs, by Louis Kontos and David Brotherton
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, by Bill O’Neal
The Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime, by Carlo Devito
The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers, by Michael Newton
Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
Peterson, Virgil., The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York. Ottawa, Illinois: Green Hill, 1983.
Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
Haskins, James., Street Gangs. New York: Hastings House, 1974.
Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1991.
Sifakis, Carl. The Encyclopedia of American Crime. New York: Facts on File Inc., 2005.
Thrasher, Frederick. The Gang: A Study of 1.313 Gangs in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926.


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