Nova Institution For Women

• ‘Patience, creativity, strategy’: Federal prison chess program helps inmates with rehab

  The volunteer-led program at a federal prison in Truro, N.S., brings the game of chess to inmates and offers skills that could help them in their rehabilitation.

  Canada

  Nov 25, 2025
  
• N.S. prison reform groups call for inmate releases as COVID-19 spreads

  So far, 20 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Nova Institution for Women and 31 have tested positive at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility.

  Health

  Jan 1, 2022
  
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• Family alleges inadequate care of woman who died at federal prison in Truro, N.S.

  Samantha Wallace-Parker, 28, died on March 4, 2019, two days after she was taken to hospital because she was pale and wheezing and complained of having difficulty breathing.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2021
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• Woman taken to hospital after assault in N.S. prison

  Correctional Service Canada said an assailant in the assault has been identified and the case is under investigation with Truro police.

  Crime

  Dec 8, 2020
• N.B. woman argues ‘dry celling’ segregation for drugs inside body violates charter

  An inmate was accused of bringing drugs into Nova Institution for Women in Truro and concealing them in her vagina.

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2020
• Former N.S. guard faces 13 charges including sex assaults at women’s prison

  Truro police say Brian Wilson faces six sexual assault charges, six charges of breach of trust and one charge of communication for the purpose of obtaining sexual services.

  Crime

  May 8, 2020
• 3 women file lawsuit alleging repeated sexual assault by Correctional Service guard in N.S.

  The alleged assaults are said to have happened at the Nova Institution for Women, located in Truro, N.S.

  Crime

  May 22, 2019
• Investigation to look into death of inmate from N.S. prison for women

  Correctional Service Canada issued a statement Wednesday saying Samantha Wallace died on Monday after she was taken to a hospital in Truro two days earlier.

  Canada

  Mar 6, 2019
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• Conservative candidate campaigns in a prison, has ‘robust debate’ on criminal justice

  Prisoners vote Oct. 9, and some candidates have been reaching out - even attending debates inside prison walls.

  Politics

  Oct 9, 2015
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• 2 suicides at same N.S. women’s prison ‘raises a lot of red flags’: ombudsman

  Camille Strickland-Murphy's suicide at the Nova Institute for Women followed the death of another woman, in April, who was serving time at the same prison.

  Canada

  Aug 14, 2015