Vanier Centre for Women

Vanier Centre for Women
Location 655 Martin Street, Milton, Ontario, Canada
Status Operational
Security class Medium/Maximum
Capacity 333
Opened 2003 (current facility)
Managed by Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

The Vanier Centre for Women (French: Centre Vanier pour les femmes[1]) in Milton, Ontario is a medium and maximum correctional facility for female offenders serving sentences of less than two years or who have been arrested and are remanded in custody awaiting trial.[2] The institution has capacity for 333 inmates.[3]

The current facility was opened in 2003 on the campus of the Maplehurst Correctional Complex replacing an older facility in Brampton, Ontario which had been opened in 1967 to house the Ontario Women's Guidance Centre, and the Ontario Women's Treatment Centre and was then renamed the Vanier Centre for Women in 1970 when it was consolidated with the former Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women.

Services for French-speaking people are offered at this facility.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Installations - Centres correctionnels." Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved on August 6, 2016. See English page.
  2. ↑ http://www.cefso.ca/prisons.html
  3. ↑ http://www.yorku.ca/gradpsyc/clinicalpracticum/sites_vanier.html
  4. ↑ "Facilities - Correctional Centres." Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved on August 6, 2016.

Coordinates: 43°31′29″N 79°53′59″W / 43.524727°N 79.899745°W / 43.524727; -79.899745

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