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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.
Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI; French: Ãtablissement 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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Occupancy
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Year opened
1997
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Operator
Correctional Service CanadaPopulation held
female
Opened
1997
Region
Ontario
Security level
Multi-level
Death-row facility
No
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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.
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World Prisons. (2026). Grand Valley Institution for Women. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/grand-valley-institution-for-women
"Grand Valley Institution for Women." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/grand-valley-institution-for-women.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Grand Valley Institution for Women},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/grand-valley-institution-for-women},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}