Dartmouth

The Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility (CNSCF) opened in October 2001. The facility has a bed capacity of 322 male and 48 female persons in custody and a staffing compliment of 300 employees.

The facility configuration has 3 separate living units. The North and West Units each consist of living units of 32-bed and 16-bed living spaces. The East Unit consists of 4 12-cell living units for female persons in custody. The in-custody population is made up of provincially sentenced, remanded, parole suspensions, immigration violations and newly sentenced federal offenders.

The Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility is co-located with the Capital District Health Authority's East Coast Forensic Hospital. Each facility is independently operated and offenders and forensic clients are separate at all times. Although separate operations, the Capital District Health Authority provides all the primary Health Services via clinics on the Corrections side as needed, and Corrections staff provide security for Forensics.

As announced in the 2015-16 Capital Plan, the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility will undergo renovations over the next several years to change the configuration of the offender units to the direct-supervision model. At the same time, other upgrades will be carried out, including enhancements to security and surveillance systems.