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Grand Valley Institution for Women

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Grand Valley Institution for Women is a multi-level-security federal correctional institution operated by Correctional Service Canada in the Ontario Region, Ontario.

Background

Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI; French: Établissement pour femmes Grand Valley) is a women's prison in Kitchener, Ontario, operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). In Canada, all offenders sentenced to prison terms of greater than two years serve their time in a federal institution operated by the CSC. The Grand Valley Institution, which had a reported capacity of approximately 130 women as of April 2010, is the only federal women's prison in Ontario.

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Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1997

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

female

Opened

1997

Region

Ontario

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.

Notable inmates

  • Jennifer Pan
    1986

    On November 8, 2010, police in Markham, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto, responded to a report of a robbery and assault at the Unionville home of Hann and Bich Pan, ethnically Chinese immigrants from Vietnam.

Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Contact & address

1575 Homer Watson Boulevard, Kitchener N2P 2C5
+1 519-650-4500
Official site

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APA
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Chicago
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BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-grand-valley-institution-fo,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Grand Valley Institution for Women},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/grand-valley-institution-for-women},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}