Bowden Institution

Bowden Institution is located on Highway 2 approximately 100 kilometres north of Calgary near the communities of Innisfail and Bowden.

We acknowledge that this institution is situated on the following traditional territories:

• Treaty 7
• ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ ᐊᐢᑭᕀ Nêhiyaw-Askiy (Plains Cree)
• Ĩyãħé Nakón mąkóce (Stoney)
• Niitsítpiis-stahkoii ᖹᐟᒧᐧᐨᑯᐧ ᓴᐦᖾᐟ (Blackfoot / Niitsítapi ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ)
• Tsuut’ina
• Michif Piyii (Métis)
• Cree

Bowden Institution opened as a medium-security facility in 1974. In 1992 a minimum security farm annex was completed. Farm operations ceased in 2009, however, the minimum security annex remained open.

Bowden Institution is a clustered facility with a minimum site based on a residential design model consisting of small group accommodation houses and a medium security site with direct observation cell ranges.

Medium security site rated capacity: 470

Minimum security site rated capacity: 130