Correctional Service of Canada
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New Brunswick
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.
It is in proximity to
Moncton
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Dundurn Books
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, November 12, 2016. , 9781459735255 p 312 "David Mylvaganam is currently incarcerated in New Brunswick, at the Atlantic Institution, ..
The Atlantic Institution handles male offenders only.
History
It was opened in 1987 on the north bank of the
Southwest Miramichi River
The Southwest Miramichi River is a river in New Brunswick, Canada.
The river has its origin in Carleton County, at Miramichi Lake in the Miramichi Highlands (a part of the Appalachian Mountains). Its two branches join near the hamlet of Junip ...
; the property was formerly used as an ammunition depot, by the
Canadian Forces
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.
Renous was selected as the site for the new maximum security prison for Atlantic Canada during the early 1980s after the aging
Dorchester Penitentiary
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was evaluated as being unsuitable for the changing focus of correctional services for repeat and violent offenders.
Following the opening of Atlantic Institution, the Dorchester Penitentiary was downgraded to handle medium security prisoners in conjunction with the
Springhill Institution
The Springhill Institution () is a Canadian federal corrections facility located in the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia.
History
It was opened on 15 October 1967 on the southwestern edge of the former coal mining town on the northern edge of th ...
.
Notable residents
* David Mylvaganam, conspirator in the killing of Bich-Ha Pan and attempted murder of Hann Pan masterminded by
Jennifer Pan
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* Serial killer Allan Legere was housed here until his escape (during a hospital visit in Moncton for an ear infection) on May 3, 1989 and went on a year long terror spree in
Miramichi, New Brunswick
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. Once caught, he was then moved to Canada's only super maximum-security prison Centre régional de réception in Quebec.
*Justin Bourque, perpetrator of the 2014 Moncton shootings.
*George Pitt, convicted of rape and murder of 6-year-old Samantha Dawn Toole in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1993.
*Christopher Garnier, murder of an off-duty Truro police officer he met in a bar in downtown Halifax.
*Sofyan Boalag, Dangerous offender convicted of 3 rapes in St Johns. One victim was a 6-year-old girl.