Joliette Institution for Women (french: Établissement Joliette pour femmes) is a prison for women in

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, northeast of

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Composition

The prison has an on-site day care, and there is a parenting skills program in which prisoners may babysit children. The prison has ten two-story cottage units, with each one housing eight women. In April 2003, a maximum security wing opened, costing $4-million. There is also a ten-person maximum security unit that was scheduled to be completed in 2013–2014.

Notable prisoners

Karla Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka (born May 4, 1970), also known as Karla Leanne Teale, Leanne Teale, and Leanne Bordelais, is a Canadian serial killer who acted as an accomplice to her husband, Paul Bernardo, taking active part in the actual rapes and murde ...

– Transferred to Joliette in 1997. Few area residents knew that she was located there nor her status. After her lifestyle at Joliette was revealed to the media, she was transferred to the

Regional Reception Centre The Regional Reception Centre (french: link=no, Centre régional de réception) is a Canadian federal prison for men located with Archambault Institution at the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) complex at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, ...

in March 2001. In 2003, she was scheduled to be moved back to Joliette after its maximum security wing opened.

References

External links

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