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KENT INSTITUTION

Agassiz, British Columbia

Contact Information

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About the Institution

Kent Institution is a maximum-security facility located in the upper Fraser Valley, near Agassiz, British Columbia, about 140 kilometres east of Vancouver. Kent is the only maximum-security facility in the Pacific Region, and shares a federal reserve with Mountain Institution. Kent Institution opened in 1979 and can house up to 324 inmates.

The Institution is equipped with regular and segregation cells, as well as cells at Health Services.

Programs at Kent Institution are aimed mainly at correcting the behaviour that led inmates to be classified as maximum-security risks. Educational programs, as well as socialization and employment, play a large role at the Institution.

Facility Characteristics

• Men's facility
• Security level: maximum
• Date opened: 1979
• Number of inmates: 222
• Average length of sentences:
  • Less than 40 months: 22 per cent of inmates
  • More than 40 months: 51 per cent of inmates
  • Life sentence: 27 per cent of inmates
• Number of employees: 307

April 2007

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