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BOWDEN INSTITUTION and ANNEX

Innisfail, Alberta

Contact Information

Map*

About the Institution

Bowden Institution is a medium-security facility with a minimum-security Annex halfway between the communities of Innisfail and Bowden, Alberta. It opened in 1974 and can accommodate up to 494 inmates.

Bowden Institution operates living units, a reception unit, dissociation/segregation beds and the Health Care Unit. The minimum-security Annex accommodates inmates in eight separate residences.

The main programs at the institution include: substance abuse treatment, reasoning and rehabilitation, anger and emotions management, family violence and programs for sex offenders. The same programs are also available to Aboriginal offenders.

Characteristics

• Institution for male offenders
• Security levels:
  • Bowden: medium
  • Annex: minimum
• Date opened: 1974
• Number of inmates: 618
• Average length of sentences:
  • Less than 40 months: 38 per cent of inmates
  • 40 months and over: 49 per cent of inmates
  • Life sentence: 13 per cent of inmates
• Number of employees: 409

April 2010

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