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Collins Bay Institution
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Collins Bay Institution is a medium-security federal correctional institution operated by Correctional Service Canada in the Ontario Region, Ontario.
Background
Collins Bay Institution (French: Ãtablissement de Collins Bay) is a multilevel correctional facility in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and falls under the supervision of Correctional Services of Canada. The facility was opened in 1930, and is now the oldest operational federal penitentiary in Ontario. The main prison is medium security, with a minimum security facility (formerly Frontenac Institution) residing on the same property. A 96-bed maximum security unit is also operational.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1930
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Correctional Service CanadaPopulation held
male
Opened
1930
Region
Ontario
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Braeden Nugent?–2005 · serial killer
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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Data completeness
62%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Correctional Service Canada â institutions
- Wikipedia â Correctional Service Canada
- Correctional Service Canada â Institutional profiles — Government of Canada (CSC)
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Correctional Service Canada â institutions directory — Correctional Service Canada / Nova Scotia Open Data
- Wikidata (Q17986592)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Collins Bay Institution. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/collins-bay-institution
Chicago
"Collins Bay Institution." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/collins-bay-institution.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-collins-bay-institution,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Collins Bay Institution},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/collins-bay-institution},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}