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Grand Valley Institution for Women

Multi-level women'sMulti-levelfemaleHigh
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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

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1997

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Correctional Service Canada

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

Site of the 2007 in-custody death of Ashley Smith.

Contact & address

1575 Homer Watson Boulevard, Kitchener N2P 2C5

Conditions Risk Score

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Data completeness

54%

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