Drumheller Institution

Drumheller Institution is a medium-security facility with a minimum-security annex, situated south-east of the Town of Drumheller just off of Highway #9 and approximately 132 kilometres east of Calgary, Alberta.

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

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

Drumheller Institution was first opened in 1967 as a Medium Security Facility. In 1997, a Minimum Security Facility adjacent to the Medium Facility was opened. Drumheller Institution opened additional Program/Administrative areas to facilitate the increase to program/intervention and administrative services in September 2015.

It has been an integral part of the community during this time, especially in terms of community engagement and the provision of a stable economic and employment base for the surrounding area.

Drumheller Institution is a clustered site (medium/minimum-security institution) for male offenders. The older units are centred on a courtyard with the support building ranged within a surrounding fence connected by breeze ways that are used to control movement.

The minimum security unit is based on a residential design model consisting of small group accommodation houses and a medium-security facility with direct observation cell ranges.

Medium security site rated capacity: 582

Minimum security site rated capacity: 122