Warkworth Institution

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Canadian Prisons
Warkworth Institution
Location:	Trent Hills, Ontario
Status:	Operational
Classification:	Medium security
Capacity:	670
Opened:	1967
Closed:
Managed by:	Corrections Canada

The Warkworth Institution is a medium-security prison facility located in the township of Trent Hills, Ontario, between the communites of Myersburg and Warkworth. The prison is the largest Federal Correctional Institution in Canada with a population of approximately 580 housed in five units. It is a male-only facility and generally one-third of the inmates are imprisoned for a sexually related offence.

[edit] History

Construction of Warkworth Institution started on March 26, 1965 on 208 acres of land that had been purchased by the Department of Justice. In 1967, the institution began operation entirely with staff and no inmate population. In September 1967, ten block was opened and the first 6 inmates arrived from Joyceville Institution. The official opening took place on October 14, 1967. At the end of the 1968 fiscal year, the facility housed 92 inmates.

In 1971, the Living Unit concept was introduced.

Warkworth is a sister institution to Springhill, N.S.; Cowansville, PQ; and Drumheller, Alberta.