Maplehurst Correctional Complex

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Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Correctional Services Logo.jpg
LocationMilton, Ontario, Canada
StatusOpen
Security classMedium/Maximum
Capacity1,500
Opened3 May 1974
Managed byMinistry of the Solicitor General

Maplehurst Correctional Complex (French: Complexe Correctional de Maplehurst) is a correctional facility located in Milton, Ontario for women and men 18 years of age and older. It is a combined maximum security detention centre for remanded prisoners, and medium/maximum correctional centre for offenders sentenced to less than two years. It used to have a separate wing for minors (12 to 17 years of age) but no longer houses them. It is also known colloquially as the "Milton Hilton" or "Muppethurst".[1] In 1972, the government started a $13.5 million construction project for the Maplehurst Correctional Centre. It was completed in 1974 and continues to operate to this day.[2] Sod was turned on the project on February 9, 1973.[3]

Maplehurst Correctional Complex was built in the mid-1970s as a replacement for several older facilities including the , , and the Mimico Correctional Centre, although the latter ultimately remained open. John Main was the facility's first administrator (warden), and came over from Mimico.[4]

It was expanded in the late 1980s and again in the early 21st century.[5]

At the official opening of the $89 million modernization in 2001, the Ontario government described the complex as the first facility in Ontario's correctional system to feature a new design with pods:[6] self-contained, 192-bed units where inmates spend their day - including program areas and an outdoor space for exercise.[7] The complex is the size of 100 football fields and was the first of so-called "super-jails" in Ontario. General Population, Protective Population and Segregation/Hospital units are all housed within the facility.[8] It shares its location with the adjacent Vanier Centre for Women, a 333-bed medium and maximum security facility for remanded and sentenced female offenders.

The prison provides a variety of remedial programs, including life skills, addictions, anger management and Alcoholics Anonymous.

Historical Incidents[]

A riot at Maplehurst Correctional Centre in Milton - during which 18 convicts escaped from the facility - left the interior of the jail in turmoil in 1979. More than $95,000 worth of recreational equipment was smashed. Seven of the escapees were recaptured in the immediate aftermath.[9]

Notable prisoners[]

  • Eric Carty, conspirator in the Jennifer Pan affair[10]
  • Snow served eight months of a year sentence for assault causing bodily harm at Maplehurst in the early 1990s.[11]
  • Lloyd Banks was held at Maplehurst in 2010 after being arrested with forcible confinement, aggravated assault and robbery in Kitchener, Ontario.

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See also[]

  • List of correctional facilities in Ontario

References[]

  1. ^ Locktalk - OPSEU Publications, March 30, 2001
  2. ^ http://news.milton.halinet.on.ca/2498798/page/13
  3. ^ http://news.milton.halinet.on.ca/2498900/page/2
  4. ^ http://news.milton.halinet.on.ca/2501152/page/1
  5. ^ CanadianCorrections.com Archived 2009-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Modernizing the System Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
  7. ^ Modern provincial jails to improve public safety Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - News Release - Government of Ontario - March 15, 2001
  8. ^ "Correctional Services". Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
  9. ^ https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=DC-TSPA_0106694F&searchPageType=vrl
  10. ^ Grimaldi, Jeremy. A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story. Dundurn Books, November 12, 2016. ISBN 1459735269, 9781459735262, PT89. "Two days after speaking with Denise Brown, Detective Courtice gives the order to take David down.[...]The following day, police descend on Maplehurst Correctional[...]where Eric Carty is held, and charge him with the same." PT88 states: "[...]on April 12, when police finally get in touch with Denise Brown,[...]"
  11. ^ https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1993/5/3/snow-business
  12. ^ https://www.guelphmercury.com/whatson-story/2766152-new-york-rapper-lloyd-banks-remains-in-jail-after-kitchener-arrest/

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