Oakalla Prison

The Oakalla Prison Farm (also known as the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre or LMRCC)[2] was a model prison farm on 185 acres (75 ha) of land next to Deer Lake, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

The Oakalla Prison Farm opened in 1912 and was initially designed to hold 150 men and women.

[4] The original woman's unit was expanded in 1953, and consisted of two cottage style buildings.

[8] In 1959 the last execution in British Columbia took place at Oakalla, with former sailor Leo Mantha aged 33 being hanged.

[9][10] Oakalla was also one of the locations that undertook the experiment of performing cosmetic surgery on inmates[11] to remove deformities that made prisoners "more likely to offend".