Corrections in Canada: An Interactive Timeline

Custody & Control

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Narrator: Custody and control. Custody means confinement in a secure environment. At maximum and medium security institutions, this means walls twenty feet high or double chain link fences topped with coils of razor wire. The fences are equipped with intrusion and motion detection sensor systems, as well as infrared cameras. The parameters are patrolled by armed mobile units. Inside these institutions the inmate's entire day, and everything he does, is controlled and regulated. He is confined to a cell about six feet wide and nine feet long. In many cases because of over-crowding, he may be sharing this accommodation with another inmate.