The Kingston Prison For Women (P4W) - Retired Prisons on Waymarking.com

The Prison For Women ("P4W"), located in Kingston, Ontario, functioned at a maximum security level from 1934 to 2000.

The first female inmates arrived on January 24, 1934. Before to this date, maximum security female offenders were housed in the Female Department of the maximum security Kingston Penitentiary located across the street.

Beginning in 1995, female inmates were gradually transferred to other federal correctional institutions. On May 8, 2000, the last female inmate was transferred away from the P4W.

In January 2008, Queen's University took ownership of the former site of the Prison for Women. The property is 8.1 acres (33,000 m2) in size. The university archives will be housed there once renovations are completed. The transformation of the property includes the demolition of three of the four stone security walls.

The Prison for Women was closed following a number of controversial incidents. LSD was administered to inmates at the prison as part of tests that are today considered to be ethically dubious.

As well, a riot at the prison in 1994 resulted in Justice Louise Arbour, then of the Ontario Court of Appeal heading up what became known as the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston which found that the treatment of prisoners at the facility had been "cruel, inhumane and degrading".

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(The above information was sourced from Wikipedia)

Address: Kingston, ON Canada Open to the public: No Hours: Not listed Fees?: Not listed Web link: Not listed

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