Central Nova Correctional Facility

• Inmates say dangerous conditions inside understaffed Nova Scotia jail violate rights

  Inmates at a Halifax-area jail say their rights have been violated by months-long rolling lockdowns, as correctional officers refuse work because of dangerous conditions.

  Canada

  Jul 20, 2023
  
• Escaped N.S. inmate robs bank, dines-and-dashes while on run, police say

  Ryan Taylor Wilband had escaped from the Central Nova Correctional Facility on Monday afternoon, according to Halifax Regional Police.

  Crime

  Aug 24, 2022
  
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• N.S. jail attack: debate on whether sentences tied to 2019 beating will curb violence

  After a judge delivered the first sentences for a brutal Halifax jail assault, there are differing views on whether they will deter the rising number of beatings in the facility.

  Crime

  Dec 23, 2021
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• Five-and-a-half year term given to inmate in first sentence in N.S. jail group attack

  The sentencing of Omar McIntosh is the first in a series expected for the Dec. 2, 2019 beating and stabbing of inmate Stephen Anderson.

  Crime

  Dec 21, 2021
• Halifax police search for inmates who escaped from Central Nova Correctional Facility

  The Department of Justice says Chad Stephen Clarke, 28, and Thomas Joseph Smith, 31, escaped the facility around 8:51 p.m. Thursday night.

  Crime

  Sep 24, 2021
• ‘I hope he dies’: Court told inmates refused to let guards near N.S. jail assault

  A trial of inmates accused of attempting to murder a prisoner heard from a corrections officer that two prisoners made clear guards wouldn't be allowed to intervene.

  Crime

  Sep 24, 2021
• Video played during Halifax jail assault trial shows inmates blockading guards

  The victim sustained life-threatening injuries in the Dec. 2, 2019 attack at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth.

  Crime

  Sep 22, 2021
• N.S. trial set to begin for six of 15 charged in vicious assault of Halifax inmate

  The victim sustained life-threatening injuries in the Dec. 2, 2019 attack at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth.

  Canada

  Sep 21, 2021
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• Coronavirus: Nova Scotia’s correctional facilities restricting visits

  Family and friend visits to inmates will be restricted to non-contact visits.

  Canada

  Mar 15, 2020
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• Halifax woman raises concern over prisoner access to health care in N.S.

  But the clinical director for offender health services in Nova Scotia defends the health-care access inmates have at the Burnside facility.

  Health

  Feb 4, 2020