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Information about Ontario's provincial correctional institutions. The information includes: * institution name * facility type * gender * region * street * city * province * country * postal code * latitude * longitude * operating status * year opened * year closed To learn about the different types of provincial adult correctional facilities ...
- Visiting A Correctional Facility
- Correctional Services Update on Covid-19
- Correctional Centres
- Detention Centres
- Jails
- Treatment Centres
Before you visit a provincial adult correctional facility, make sure you have read the visiting policy, checked the visiting hours and contacted the facility to schedule your visit in advance, if required.
We are committed to protecting the safety of staff, inmates, and members of the public in Ontario’s adult correctional facilities as a precautionary response to COVID-19. The following operational changes are in effect until further notice:
Correctional centres house sentenced offenders who are typically serving periods of incarceration from 60 days to a maximum of two years less a day. Offenders serving their sentences in correctional centres are eligible for: 1. education 2. counselling 3. work experience programs
Detention centres are larger, modern facilities built as regional facilities serving larger areas in Ontario. Detention centres serve as the point of entry into the institutional system. They hold: 1. persons on remand, for example, people awaiting trial, sentencing or other proceedings 2. offenders sentenced to short terms (approximately 60 days o...
Jails are older, generally smaller facilities originally established by local counties, townships or municipalities.
Treatment centres provide specialized and intensive treatment for motivated offenders with clearly identified problems relating to: 1. substance abuse 2. sexual misconduct 3. impulse control 4. anger management These facilities are staffed by professional clinical personnel employed by, or under contract to, the Ministry of the Solicitor General.
The Southport Correctional Facility was an ultra-maximum-security, or "supermax", prison, run by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was located in the town of Southport, in the Southern Tier of New York State, United States.
Learn about the wide range of federal correctional facilities from coast to coast and the security measures in place to ensure public safety.
Nov 18, 2021 · BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG)—The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) announced last week that it will close six prisons statewide, including the Southport Correctional Facility near Elmira. Criminal justice advocates have been glad to see Southport near its close.
Mar 11, 2022 · This is the reality inside Southport Correctional Facility, New York’s first supermax prison. Located four hours west of New York City near the Pennsylvania border, Southport holds roughly 350 people in Special Housing Units (SHUs), or specially-designed solitary confinement units, on any given day.
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Mar 9, 2022 · SOUTHPORT, N.Y. (WETM) – After a surprise announcement from New York State last November, the Southport Correctional Facility will close its doors for good tomorrow, a move made by Gov. Kathy...
