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  Correctional Service of Canada - Institutional Profiles - Ontario Region
Collins Bay was one of the four institutions subjected to a comprehensive assessment of its physical plant, conducted during 1999/2000.
Although Collins Bay Institution is considered to house a non-integrated aggressor population, it is currently in the process of changing its profile to eventually become a fully integrated population by the time the new units are completed.
It is important to note that the Transition Unit is not considered to be a long term unit and inmates accepted to the Transition Unit should have less than a year remaining on their sentence.
www.csc-scc.gc.ca /text/facilit/institutprofiles/collinsbay_e.shtml   (562 words)

  
 Long Bay Correctional Centre
Long Bay Correctional Complex is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
However to Correctional Officers it appears he will be fondly remembered for alleged incompetence which has led to them being some of the highest paid public servants in the state through understaffing and great deals of overtime.
Long Bay Hospital is a maximum security facility which holds a total of 120 inmate patients in four wards.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Long_Bay_Correctional_Centre   (1303 words)

  
 Correctional Facilities, Sydney, ZPages
Bathurst Correctional Centre is a medium/minimum institution for males situated 210km west of Sydney.
Correctional Centre classified as a "Short Term" Remand and Transient Centre, housing unsentenced and sentenced C1 and C2 inmates.
Junee Correctional Centre is a medium/minimum security institution for males located 450km south-west of Sydney and 40km from Wagga Wagga.
sydney.zpages.com.au /correctional-facilities   (373 words)

  
 Long Bay Correctional Centre Information
Long Bay was opened in 1911 after the closure of the prison at Darlinghurst.
Long Bay Gaol is probably best remembered for its "Katingal" facility, a notorious supermax prison block built in 1975.
Metropolitan Medical Transit Centre/LBH A2 MMTC, aka Long Bay Hospital Area 2 is a maximum security facility, currently being used to hold inmates who have been discharged from Long Bay Hospital or are awaiting medical appointments.
www.bookrags.com /Long_Bay_Correctional_Centre   (399 words)

  
 Long Bay Correctional Complex
Long Bay Correctional Complex is located 14km south of Sydney's central business district.
Long Bay Hospital a maximum security institution for medical and psychiatric cases.
Formerly the Metropolitan Remand Centre, it is currently being used to hold inmates who have been discharged from Long Bay Hospital or are awaiting medical appointments.
www.dcs.nsw.gov.au /offender_management/offender_management_in_custody/correctional_centres/longbay.asp   (554 words)

  
 Green Left - Issues: Growing problems in privatised prisons
Her husband “Patrick”, an inmate at Junee Correctional Centre, was recently transferred after serving the first 10 months of his sentence at the Long Bay Remand Centre.
This statement was made in the context of a suicide of a prisoner at Long Bay Correctional Centre after he was informed of his impending transfer to Junee.
Privatisation of state correctional systems raises many other issues: the profits able to be appropriated from prison labour, the contracting out of prison services to local business and political interests (such as a local council member at Junee) and the use of local unemployed populations to fill non-unionised prison staff positions.
www.greenleft.org.au /1994/139/9982   (1077 words)

  
 SAVE A LIFE - Foreign Prisoners Support Service
A Corrections Bill was introduced in Parliament in 1984 to cope with the problem, but little had resulted by the mid-1980s because of lack of funds for expanding prison facilities.
Designed for 800 inmates, it had long been overcrowded and was scheduled for eventual replacement by a newer building.
Under this act, the label "prisoner" was changed to "inmate"; "prison officer" to "correctional officer"; and "prison" to "adult correctional centre." The act also established gainful employment programs for inmates, pre-release and after-care hostels for the rehabilitation and social integration of inmates, and provisions governing the standards and inspection of correctional institutions.
www.phaseloop.com /foreignprisoners/prison-jamaica.html   (1056 words)

  
 Long Bay Correctional Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the largest gaol in the state of New South Wales, with a current inmate population around 730.
Industrial Training Centre This gaol is now under the control of the Metro Special Programs Centre and is known as MSPC Area 5and6.
Long Bay Hospital is a maximum security facility which holds a total of 90 inmate patients in three wards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Bay_Correctional_Centre   (524 words)

  
 North Bay - Business Summary
The City of North Bay's prime location is one factor in the significant growth of local business and industry.
North Bay has evolved from a transportation crossroads to an international centre for manufacturing, telecommunications infrastructure links north, south, west, and east directions on the fibre-optic Information Superhighway.
North Bay offers a unique quality of life which provides business opportunities and an ideal cultural, recreational and educational environment for families to enjoy their lives to the fullest.
www.city.north-bay.on.ca /business_summary.htm   (1061 words)

  
 MJA: Butler et al., Hepatitis B and C in New South Wales prisons: prevalence and risk factors
The study was performed at the Reception Centre at Long Bay Correctional Centre, Sydney, NSW, from June to December 1994.
The Reception Centre receives about 51% of adult males entering the NSW correctional system, most of whom are then transferred to other prisons.
In contrast, there were 25 HIV-positive inmates in NSW correctional centres at the time of the study (0.4%; 23 male and 2 female) (unpublished data).
www.mja.com.au /public/issues/feb3/butler/butler.html   (2492 words)

  
 Federal Court of Australia - information for practitioners
Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, or otherwise held at a remand centre, such as Long Bay or Silverwater, the registry does not make arrangements to have that party brought to Court.
If a party is in immigration detention at a remand centre the Minister's solicitors will notify the Associate to the Docket Judge or Federal Magistrate that that party is in such detention and that no order is required to be made by a Judge or Federal Magistrate of the Court for the applicant's attendance.
at Long Bay Correctional Complex, the Minister's solicitors will notify the registry that the party is in custody, any reference used by the custodial authority to identify the party and the name of the custodial institution.
www.fedcourt.gov.au /how/practicenotices_nsw20.html   (982 words)

  
 ICAC - STATE AGENCIES - CORRECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF - Investigation into the Department of Corrective Services: ...
That the Department of Corrective Service’s Code of Conduct dealing with the association between present and former inmates and Corrections staff be reviewed to define the limits of appropriate conduct in cases of actual or potential conflicts of interests, and to detail appropriate remedial and disciplinary action.
Some correctional centres have employed contract cleaners while others have arranged times for staff to accompany inmates to the clinic and supervise their work.
A number of correctional centres are participating in a trial of CHS employed contract cleaners in clinics with the aim of improving cleanliness and security.
www.icac.nsw.gov.au /index.cfm?objectID=FCD540C5-1033-B4BD-3867EBAED35493C7   (1956 words)

  
 The OPSEU strike: workers, screws, inmates and class struggle : Thunderbay IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The legal strike affects correctional facilities, provincial psychiatric hospitals, highway transport enforcement, provincial laboratories, probation and parole services, parks and tourist attractions such as the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Place, and hundreds of government offices across Ontario.
People serving their sentences on weekends at the Mimico Correctional Centre were signed in, signed out and told to go home and serve their time under house arrest.
On the night of Sunday March 18th, forty-four inmates at the Ottawa Carleton Regional Detention Centre staged a riot in protest of the horrendous conditions they were experiencing such as late meals, poor sanitary conditions, no clean clothes, no toiletries and no yard time.
thunderbay.indymedia.org /news/2002/03/105.php   (1964 words)

  
 Hong Kong Correctional Services - Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In this long stream of time, numerous reforms and developments took place in response to the economic, political, judicial and social changes of Hong Kong at different points of time.
Occupying an area of 480 square metres and with a collection of some 600 artefacts, the new museum is housed in a two-storey building next to the parade ground of the STI in Stanley.
A Community Education Centre built on the podium of the parade ground aims to introduce the Department's correctional and rehabilitative programmes to the public.
www.csd.gov.hk /english/hkcsm/hkcsm.html   (269 words)

  
 DanceSafe: CN ON: Help For Hooked Teens
Dave Smith is the only addiction centre for young people, but advocates say there's a huge gap in services and support for youth under the age of 16 with addictions.
When Smith opened the centre, his goal was to have a residential treatment centre.
Among priorities identified in the Ottawa Integrated Drugs and Addictions strategy that was unveiled in June is establishing a residential substance abuse treatment centre for youth 16 and under.
www.mapinc.org /safe/v06/n1047/a08.html   (1112 words)

  
 NSW Department of Corrective Services News GKCNN Online
Once the damage is done DCS send them to the Long Bay Mental Health Facility and put them on drugs to control them.
Effectively the 'Department of Corrective Services' and 'Justice Health' (the new clean name given to the Corrections Health Service) are causing prisoners mental illness as a means of retribution and prisoner control.
The 2003 NSW Corrections Health Service (now Justice Health) Report on Mental Illness Among NSW Prisoners states that the 12 month prevalence of any psychiatric disorder in prison is 74%, compared to 22% in the general community, and while this includes substance disorder the high rate cannot be attributed to that alone.
www.geocities.com /nswac14/archive05/2005a27.html   (1037 words)

  
 Hempstead leaders say Rockefeller laws hurt minority communities - Newsday.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The laws, though well intended, have kept many minority men in prison for too long, leaving their children fatherless and creating a cycle of violence, activists said.
Supporters of the laws contend that incarcerating drug dealers for long periods takes them out of communities and allows neighborhoods to be rebuilt.
More than 90 percent of the prisoners behind bars under the Rockefeller statutes are minorities, according to The Correctional Association of New York, a group advocating changes.
www.newsday.com /news/local/longisland/ny-lirock0225,0,3549472.story?track=rss   (373 words)

  
 Behavioural Sciences Centre - St. Joseph's Care Group
He is a graduate of Lakehead University and currently functions as an addictions counsellor at the Sister Margaret Smith Centre of St. Joseph's Care Group.
She has provided marital and individual counselling with the Behavioural Sciences Centre for the past ten years and has recently become a full time EAP counsellor with B.S.C. Her training at the Ontario Family Guidance program in Toronto has equipped her with additional expertise in marriage and family counselling.
Prior to working with the Behavioural Sciences Centre, Trevor was employed as a Psychometrist at the Lakehead Regional Family Centre.
www.sjcg.net /services/community/bsc_team.asp   (1119 words)

  
 Parklea Correctional Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parklea Correctional Centre is a medium security Australian prison for young male offenders mainly between the ages of 18 and 25.
The prison was intallially designated as a maximum security prison as a result of a recommendation of the Royal Commission into NSW Prisons (1976 - 1978).
The prison was reclassified from maximum security to medium security after the riots and was designated as a correctional prison for young offenders in February 1992.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parklea_Correctional_Centre   (222 words)

  
 Print Article: Rivkin to spend weekend at Long Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
NSW Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham yesterday said the disgraced stockbroker would be kept under observation at the Long Bay prison hospital after threatening to harm himself.
A decision was to be made today on whether he was medically fit for transfer to the Silverwater correctional centre, Mr Woodham said.
However, today a Corrective Services spokesman said authorities had decided to leave him at Long Bay prison hospital for the weekend.
www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/02/07/1075854100305.html   (425 words)

  
 Canada's Fourth Report on CEDAW - Ontario
The Centres provide comprehensive services to women including 24 hour crisis intervention and support; hospital, police and court accompaniment; public and professional education; short and long-term group and individual counselling; information and referral services; diverse community outreach; and other services to urban and rural areas.
In 1991, the Ministry of the Attorney General announced a pilot project which provides provincial funding for supervised access services which are necessary when a court orders that a non-custodial parent's access to his or her children must be supervised.
As of 1993, 14 centres, run by local community boards provided safer environments for non-custodial parents to meet with their children.
www.bayefsky.com /reports/canada/cedaw4/on_e.html   (6992 words)

  
 JusticeAction Australia : Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Redfern Legal Centre is a Sydney community legal centre which provides advice in all areas of law to people who cannot get Legal Aid or cannot afford a private solicitor.
CRC (Community Restorative Centre) is a community organisation in New South Wales dedicated to supporting prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families and friends.
CRC Justice Support also has support groups and counselling available at the Visitors' House, Long Bay Correctional Centre, and is open some weekends as a drop in centre with tea, coffee and children's facilities.
www.justiceaction.org.au /Resources/Allies/cjc.html   (708 words)

  
 indymedia.us :: Isolation at prisons should be eliminated
The report stated that the prisons, developed by the Justice Ministry, were not hotels, but the prisoners have social and cultural rights during their stay in the prisons.
As long as the death penalty is maintained, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated.
We the prisoners at the High Risk Management Unit at Goulburn Correctional Centre would like to ask you for help in receiving equal treatment and opportunities as other prisoners throughout the system.
indymedia.us /en/2005/07/8894.shtml   (1970 words)

  
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The pronouncement comes amidst reports that the results of medical examinations carried out on the 23 Haitians who arrived in Jamaica on February 15, should be handed over to prison officials Monday.
Speaking with the RJR News Centre Monday morning, Opposition Spokesman on Health, Dr. Ken Baugh said he has been monitoring the reports.
Former president of the Old Harbour Bay Development Committee, Emmanuel Gordon, said the activity formed part of preparations for Cricket World Cup.
oldharbourbay.com /index.html   (2438 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - Lead Stories - Friday | April 1, 2005
FOUR PERSONS, a warder and three inmates, died during a riot yesterday at the maximum security Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, downtown Kingston.
TRAGEDY STRUCK at the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Clarke's Town, Trelawny, yesterday afternoon when a technician was killed and another man seriously injured in a massive explosion which rocked a section of the factory.
MAHOE BAY Company Limited has sued the government over its alleged failure to pay for land adjacent to the Sangster International Airport which it had taken possession of in 2002.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050401/lead/index.html   (275 words)

  
 Stiff Bicky's. : Indybay
Rahiman Khan, 41, who was jailed four years ago for assault and detaining a person against their will, told the tribunal the Junee Correctional Centre had failed to provide him with food prepared in accordance with Islamic halal food rules.
Khan, now being held at Long Bay Jail and with another four years to serve, appealed.
A spokesman for the Department of Corrective Services, Bob Stapleton, it was "totally impractical" for the state's 27 jails to provide halal food at the moment due to the strict requirements of the culture.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2002/08/01/1392841.php   (515 words)

  
 By Theme or Subject Matter - Legal Rights - Criminal - Conditions of Arrest and Detention - Jurisprudence - up to July ...
Pinkney...complains that while detained at the Lower Mainland Regional Correction Centre he was prevented from communicating with outside officials and was thereby subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his correspondence contrary to article 17 (1) of the Covenant.
Pinkney's departure from the Lower Mainland Regional Correction Centre, in practice they were being applied when he was detained in that institution.
Pinkney was detained at the Lower Mainland Regional Correction Centre the only law in force governing the control and censorship of prisoners' correspondence appears to have been section 2.40 (b) of the Gaol Rules and 'Regulations 1961.
www.bayefsky.com /themes/legal_criminal_arrest-and-detention_jurisprudence.php   (13924 words)

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