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PRISON FOR WOMEN
Kingston, Ontario
Facility Role Statement
The Prison for Women contributes to the successful reintegration of women offenders by preparing high needs/high risk women offenders from the Ontario Region for consideration for reduced security and conditional release, at the earliest possible date. This will be accomplished by providing timely women centered programs according to the Mission, the Correctional and Conditional Release Act, and the Correctional Strategies for Federally Sentenced Women and by managing women offenders experiencing mental health problems according to the Mental Health Strategy for Federally Sentenced Women.
About the Institution
Women were first admitted to Kingston Penitentiary (KP) in 1835. In 1920, overcrowding, and a recommendation to the Minister of Justice, led to the initiation of the establishment of a separate Prison for Women. Construction began in 1925, behind the Kingston Penitentiary Warden's House, on a plot of land that had been initially intended for the site of a proposed "Prison of Isolation" in the late 19th century. Inmates provided the labour involved in the construction from Kingston Penitentiary.
In 1932, KP experienced its first major riot. As a result, approximately 150 male inmates were transferred to the new unoccupied women's facility in order to allow administrators to reorganize accommodations in KP. The men remained there for approximately a year and a half, when they were transferred back to KP. Subsequently, the female inmate population was transferred to the new facility, bringing to a close 99 years of operation of the "female department' of Kingston Penitentiary. The Prison for Women was officially opened in January, 1934.
In 1991, a government task force recommended that the prison be replaced by new regional facilities. Those facilities have since opened and the more secure Prison for Women now accommodates a limited number of women for treatment and program purposes. It remains scheduled for eventual closure.
The Prison for Women is a multi-level facility for Federally Sentenced Women in Ontario. It is one of three women's facilities in the region and its role is to provide safe secure and humane custody for maximum-security women offenders and women offenders who exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder. The Prison for Women operates three units; one unit for the general population, a special needs unit for women with mental disorders, and a transition range for both mentally disordered and developmentally disadvantaged women who have demonstrated progress and now require less structure and supervision.
The treatment environment and approach is multi-disciplinary which ensures that women are appropriately placed in individual and group programs to address identified needs and risk factor at the earliest possible time in their sentence in order to facilitate transfer to a regional women's facility or conditional release to the community. The Prison for Women provides accommodation and programming for maximum-security inmates and maximum/mental health security female inmates. Both programs are "stand-alone" on dedicated ranges.
KINGSTON PRISON FOR WOMEN
FEMALE OFFENDERS
Facility Characteristics
Date opened: 1934
Security level: Maximum
As of March 31, 1999
Rated capacity: 17 (Maximum), 18 (Mental Health)
Number of inmates: 23
Number of inmates that are double bunked: n/a
Kingston, Ontario
Facility Role Statement
The Prison for Women contributes to the successful reintegration of women offenders by preparing high needs/high risk women offenders from the Ontario Region for consideration for reduced security and conditional release, at the earliest possible date. This will be accomplished by providing timely women centered programs according to the Mission, the Correctional and Conditional Release Act, and the Correctional Strategies for Federally Sentenced Women and by managing women offenders experiencing mental health problems according to the Mental Health Strategy for Federally Sentenced Women.
About the Institution
Women were first admitted to Kingston Penitentiary (KP) in 1835. In 1920, overcrowding, and a recommendation to the Minister of Justice, led to the initiation of the establishment of a separate Prison for Women. Construction began in 1925, behind the Kingston Penitentiary Warden's House, on a plot of land that had been initially intended for the site of a proposed "Prison of Isolation" in the late 19th century. Inmates provided the labour involved in the construction from Kingston Penitentiary.
In 1932, KP experienced its first major riot. As a result, approximately 150 male inmates were transferred to the new unoccupied women's facility in order to allow administrators to reorganize accommodations in KP. The men remained there for approximately a year and a half, when they were transferred back to KP. Subsequently, the female inmate population was transferred to the new facility, bringing to a close 99 years of operation of the "female department' of Kingston Penitentiary. The Prison for Women was officially opened in January, 1934.
In 1991, a government task force recommended that the prison be replaced by new regional facilities. Those facilities have since opened and the more secure Prison for Women now accommodates a limited number of women for treatment and program purposes. It remains scheduled for eventual closure.
The Prison for Women is a multi-level facility for Federally Sentenced Women in Ontario. It is one of three women's facilities in the region and its role is to provide safe secure and humane custody for maximum-security women offenders and women offenders who exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder. The Prison for Women operates three units; one unit for the general population, a special needs unit for women with mental disorders, and a transition range for both mentally disordered and developmentally disadvantaged women who have demonstrated progress and now require less structure and supervision.
The treatment environment and approach is multi-disciplinary which ensures that women are appropriately placed in individual and group programs to address identified needs and risk factor at the earliest possible time in their sentence in order to facilitate transfer to a regional women's facility or conditional release to the community. The Prison for Women provides accommodation and programming for maximum-security inmates and maximum/mental health security female inmates. Both programs are "stand-alone" on dedicated ranges.
KINGSTON PRISON FOR WOMEN
FEMALE OFFENDERS
Facility Characteristics
Date opened: 1934
Security level: Maximum
As of March 31, 1999
Rated capacity: 17 (Maximum), 18 (Mental Health)
Number of inmates: 23
Number of inmates that are double bunked: n/a