Medium Correctional Centres

Medium correctional centres employ a combination of features to maintain control over the inmate population. Secure perimeter fencing and strategically located closed circuit television cameras provide physical and technological security, in addition to high levels of programming and staff supervision.

There are three medium correctional centres:

• Alouette Correctional Centre for Women;
• Ford Mountain Correctional Centre;
• Nanaimo Correctional Centre.

Within medium correctional centres, programs and activities are provided in work, recreation, education, life skills and personal development to enable inmates to make positive use of their incarceration.

Work programs ensure that custodial orders issued by the court are carried out. They include farming and animal husbandry, sawmill and woodwork, gardening, salmon enhancement and fire hose cleaning and repairing. Programs are often operated co-operatively with the federal government, other branches of the provincial government or municipal governments.

Inmates classified to medium correctional centres do not generally require the higher level of supervision of a regional correctional centre.

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