Mountain Institution is a medium security federal penitentiary operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
[1][2] Its construction, to discourage traditional burning of buildings that characterized their method of protest, consisted of all metal living units.
This is no longer the case as the only federal prison in BC that has a specialized protective custody section is Kent Institution.
It was enlarged and the old living units, which were basically of partitioned dormitory style, were torn down and replaced with three modern 60-unit buildings.
Convicted child pornographer, Michael Andrew Gibbon (39) was beaten to death (with baseball bats) in his cell while a second inmate, Trevor Wayne O'Brien (25), died of a drug overdose (200 ml of 175 mg methadone, first time he'd tried it) later in hospital.
[4][5][6] The riot was initiated by inmates in response to what was deemed extreme measures taken to curtail the drug trade within the prison.