Ontario Prison

• Drugs, weapon seized during week of searches at Warkworth Institution

  Items seized during Jan. 1-6 searches of the medium-sized federal prison near Peterborough, Ont., included "unknown" pills, a stabbing weapon, cellphones and tattoo paraphernalia,

  Crime

  Jan 11, 2023
  
• Inquest hears drugs smuggled into Lindsay, Ont. superjail inside inmates’ bodies, mail

  Dan Tremblay testified at an inquest that is examining the circumstances of five drug-related deaths at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont.

  Crime

  Nov 15, 2022
  
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• Inmate at Ontario’s Beaver Creek Institution dies after 31 years in prison

  Officials say the coroner has been notified about his death, as is required by federal policy.

  Canada

  Oct 8, 2022
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• Woman, group allege Ontario law on jail strip searches unconstitutional

  The claim says strips searches are ``inherently humiliating and degrading,'' and must be subject to appropriate legal limits.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2022
• Marijuana, hash oil contraband seized at Warkworth Institution

  The estimated value of the seizure at the medium-sized prison is $18,320.

  Crime

  Aug 10, 2021
• Elderly and at-risk inmates to receive COVID-19 vaccine on Friday

  On Wednesday, CSC announced that as part of the first phase of the vaccine rollout plan, 600 medically vulnerable federal inmates will receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2021
• Federal government wants Ontario inmate segregation fight put on ice

  A federal lawyer says Bill C-56, introduced earlier this month, would set presumptive limits on administrative segregation, along with independent oversight of its application.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2017
• Ontario ombudsman slams inmate-segregation system; says people put at risk

  In a report out today, ombudsman Paul Dube says no one is properly tracking how long inmates are kept in solitary.

  Canada

  Apr 20, 2017
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• Ontario inmate out of segregation after four years in pre-trial custody

  An inmate who has been held in segregation for the past four years at a Thunder Bay, Ont., jail was moved to a regular cell on Wednesday.

  Canada

  Oct 26, 2016