Matsqui Institution (Abbotsford, British Columbia)
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Matsqui Institution is a medium-security facility located about 70 kilometres from Vancouver. The Institution opened in 1966 and can house up to 350 inmates.
Accommodations for the general population are provided in a three-story living unit with a central core of security control posts.
Matsqui provides a number of basic programs, as well as vocational training programs and the Aboriginal Basic Healing Program, which focuses on First Nations.
Facility Characteristics
* Men's facility
* Security level: medium
* Date opened: 1966
* Number of inmates: 356
* Average length of sentences:
o Less than 40 months: 42 per cent of inmates
o More than 40 months: 40 per cent of inmates
o Life sentence: 17 per cent of inmates
* Number of employees: 275
Restricted Air space
Accommodations for the general population are provided in a three-story living unit with a central core of security control posts.
Matsqui provides a number of basic programs, as well as vocational training programs and the Aboriginal Basic Healing Program, which focuses on First Nations.
Facility Characteristics
* Men's facility
* Security level: medium
* Date opened: 1966
* Number of inmates: 356
* Average length of sentences:
o Less than 40 months: 42 per cent of inmates
o More than 40 months: 40 per cent of inmates
o Life sentence: 17 per cent of inmates
* Number of employees: 275
Restricted Air space
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 49°1'39"N 122°18'14"W
- McNeil Island 202 km
- Washington Corrections Center 209 km
- Deer Ridge Grounds 497 km
- Bowden Correctional Institution 672 km
- Montana State Prison 768 km
- Tule Lake Internment Camp, Sections 1 - 4 797 km
- Tule Lake Internment Camp (site) 797 km
- Tule Lake Internment Camp, Sections 5, 6, 8 798 km
- Pelican Bay State Prison Grounds 811 km
- CFS Beausejour 1876 km
- Fraser Valley Institution (FVI) 0.4 km
- Exit 90 - McCallum Road and Highway 1 1.1 km
- University of the Fraser Valley 1.4 km
- Albert Dyke Oark 3.2 km
- Judson lake 4.2 km
- Runway 07/25 4.2 km
- Abbotsford International Airport 4.3 km
- Delair park 4.9 km
- Fraserglen Golf and Training Centre 5.4 km
- Nooksack Valley High School 6.9 km
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