List of prisons

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This page provides a list of prisons by country.

Contents

[edit] Australia

For prisons in Australia, see list of Australian Prisons and Detention Centres

[edit] Australian Capital Territory

[edit] New South Wales

[edit] Northern Territory

[edit] Queensland

[edit] Victoria

[edit] South Australia

[edit] Tasmania

[edit] Western Australia

[edit] Bolivia

[edit] Brazil

  • Carandiru (historical)
  • Centro de Readaptação Provisória de Presidente Bernardes (Presidente Bernardes, São Paulo, Brazil) - inspired by the Supermax standards, although prisoners can only stay there for a maximum of 2 years.
  • Penitenciária Federal de Catanduvas (Catanduvas, Paraná, Brazil) - also based on the Supermax standards. It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems.
  • Penitenciária Federal de Campo Grande (Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar, the colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía and bicheiro João Arcanjo.

[edit] Canada

[edit] Ontario

[edit] Men's (Federal)

[edit] Men's (Provincial)

  • Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre
  • Brantford Jail
  • Brockville Jail
  • Central East Correctional Centre
  • Central North Correctional Centre
  • Chatham Jail
  • Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
  • Fort Frances Jail
  • Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre
  • Kenora Jail
  • Maplehurst Correctional Complex
  • Mimico Correctional Centre
  • Montieth Correctional Centre
  • Niagara Detention Centre
  • North Bay Jail
  • Ontario Correctional Institute
  • Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
  • Owen Sound Jail
  • Quinte Detention Centre
  • St. Lawrence Valley Correctional & Treatment Centre
  • Sarnia Jail
  • Stratford Jail
  • Sudbury Jail
  • Thunder Bay Correctional Centre
  • Thunder Bay Jail
  • Toronto (Don) Jail
  • Toronto East Detention Centre
  • Toronto West Detention Centre
  • Walkerton Jail
  • Windsor Jail

(Note: Some provincial facilities, though predominantly male, may house a small number of remanded female inmates.)

For decommissioned and historical provincial facilities see Correctional Facilities of Ontario, Canada.

[edit] Women's (Federal)

  • Grand Valley Institution for Women (multi)
  • Isabel McNeil House (Minimum)

[edit] Women's (Provincial)

  • Vanier Centre for Women

[edit] Quebec

[edit] Men's

  • Donnacona Instution (Maximum)
  • Port-Cartier Institution (Maximum)
  • Regional Reception Centre (Maximum)
  • Archambault Institution (Medium)
  • Cowansville Institution (Medium)
  • Drummond Institution (Medium)
  • La Macaza Institution (Medium)
  • Leclerc Institution (Medium)
  • Federal Training Centre (Minimum)
  • Montée Saint-François Institution (Minimum)
  • Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Institution (Minimum)
  • Rivière-des-Prairie (RDP) Institution (Minimum)
  • Bordeaux - (Minimum)

[edit] Women's

  • Joliette Institution (Multi)

[edit] Atlantic

[edit] Men's

  • Atlantic Institution (Maximum)
  • Dorchester Penitentiary (Medium)
  • Springhill Institution (Medium)
  • Westmorland Institution (Minimum)
  • Burnside Institution (medium and mental health)
  • Saint John Correctional Facility (Minimum)

[edit] Women's

  • Nova Institution for Women

[edit] Prairie

[edit] Men's

  • Edmonton Institution (Maximum)
  • Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary (Medium/Maximum)
  • Stony Mountain Institution (Medium)
  • Drumheller Institution (Medium/Minimum)
  • Bowden Institution (Medium/Minimum)
  • Grande Cache Institution (Minimum)
  • Riverbend Institution (Minimum)
  • Rockwood Institution (Minimum)
  • Pê Sâkâstêw Centre (Minimum)
  • Grierson Centre (Minimum)
  • Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies) (Multi)
  • Willow Cree Healing Lodge (Minimum)

[edit] Women's

  • Edmonton Institution for Women (Multi)
  • Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge (Medium/Minimum)

[edit] Pacific

[edit] Men's

  • Regional Treatment Centre Centre / Pacific Institution & Regional Reception Centre
  • Kent Institution (Maximum)
  • Matsqui Institution (Medium)
  • Mountain Institution (Medium)
  • Mission Institution (Medium)
  • William Head Institution (Minimum)
  • Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Village (Minimum)
  • Ferndale Institution (Minimum)

[edit] Women's

  • Fraser Valley Institution for Women

[edit] Other Canadian correctional facilities

[edit] People's Republic of China

[edit] Beijing

[edit] Guangdong

  • Jieyang Prison
  • Shantou Prison

[edit] Heilongjiang

  • Daqing City Hongweixing Prison

[edit] Hong Kong

For prisons in Hong Kong, see list of prisons in Hong Kong

[edit] Czech Republic

For prisons in the Czech Republic, see list of prisons in the Czech Republic

[edit] France

Listing from official website: http://www.justice.gouv.fr/minister/DAP/etablissement.htm (in French)

[edit] Germany

[edit] Greece

For prisons in Greece, see list of prisons in Greece

[edit] Hungary

  • Állampusztai Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Állampuszta
  • Balassagyarmati Fegyház és Börtön, Balassagyarmat
  • Budapesti Fegyház és Börtön, Budapest
  • Fiatalkorúak Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézete, Tököl, Szírmabesenyő, Kecskemét
  • Kalocsai Börtön, Kalocsa
  • Márianosztrai Fegyház és Börtön, Márianosztra
  • Nagyfai Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Algyő-nagyfa
  • Pálhalmai Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Dunaújváros-pálhalma
  • Sátoraljaújhelyi Fegyház és Börtön, Sátoraljaújhely
  • Sopronkőhidai Fegyház és Börtön, Sopronkőhida
  • Szegedi Fegyház és Börtön, Szeged Csillagbörtön / Star Prison
  • Tiszalöki Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Tiszalök
  • Váci Fegyház és Börtön, Vác

[edit] Republic of Ireland

[edit] India

  • Tihar Jail, New Delhi

[edit] Italy

[edit] Malta

  • Corradino Correctional Centre, Paola

[edit] Morocco

[edit] New Zealand

For prisons in New Zealand, see list of correctional facilities in New Zealand

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] Sindh

[edit] Russia

See also: Gulag
See also: list of Soviet Union prison sites that detained Poles

[edit] Singapore

For prisons in Singapore, see list of prisons in Singapore

[edit] Slovakia

[edit] Spain

[edit] Sweden

[edit] Turkey

[edit] United Kingdom

For prisons in the UK, see list of United Kingdom prisons

[edit] United States

For prisons in the US, see list of U.S. federal prisons, list of U.S. state prisons and list of U.S. military prisons.

[edit] Other countries

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Jim Birchard, Jim Birchard. "Cop killer moved to medium security jail", www.radioowensound.com, Bayshore Broadcasting Corp, 2008-02-23. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.