In addition, Waypoint provides the province's only high secure forensic hospital for clients served by both the mental health and justice systems.

In the 1960s the hospital began to treat patients such as Peter Woodcock with LSD (otherwise known as 'acid'),[1] another form of treatment included the STU program.

Built in 1933 on the site of an old British military garrison, the Oak Ridge "Criminal Insane Building" (generally referred to as the "New Building") served as a forensic mental health care unit for Penetanguishene[2] for 81 years.

[3] (44°48′01″N 79°55′34″W / 44.80041°N 79.92606°W / 44.80041; -79.92606) Under Dr. Elliot Thompson Barker and Dr. Gary J. Maier, the psychiatric centre was notorious for torture and use of LSD that led to its closure.

[4][5] The Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care has remodeled itself in current years, further updating the prison.