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Bowden Institution
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Background
Bowden Institution is a medium security prison operated by Correctional Services Canada. It was built on an "open campus" model. In an adjoining minimum security annex prisoners live in ordinary houses. The facility is located on Alberta's Queen Elizabeth II Highway, between the small towns of Bowden, Alberta and Innisfail, Alberta, approximately halfway between Calgary and Edmonton.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1974
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Correctional Service Canada
Population held
male
Opened
1974
Region
Alberta
Security level
Multi-level
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
54%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- CSC — Bowden Institution
- Correctional Service Canada — Institutional profiles — Government of Canada (CSC)
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.