Canada · Ontario · Kitchener
Grand Valley Institution for Women
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit Grand Valley Institution for Women
Step-by-step guidance using the Canada system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
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.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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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
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
54%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- CSC — Grand Valley Institution
- Correctional Service Canada — Institutional profiles — Government of Canada (CSC)
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.