Colquitz Gaol Saanich Prison Farm (1913-16) Colquitz Centre for the Criminally Insane (1916-1954) Provincial Government Pheasant Farm (1918-1919) Colquitz Provincial Mental Home (1919-1964) Oakalla Prison Farm, Vancouver Island Unit (1964-1966) The Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (VIRCC) is a Regional Correctional Centre that is located in the District Municipality of Saanich, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

There was at least one execution at the facility, with the most famous case being Robert Suttie who was hanged on January 15, 1915 for shooting and killing his foreman, Richard Hargreaves.

[4] In 1985, the facility completed a $24 Million dollar renovation, mostly focussing on the interior of the building, leaving nothing behind from the original but the heritage facade.

[11] On February 22, 2007, inmate Wayne Allan Turner was found dead in the centre, hanging from a fire sprinkler head.

[12] British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union corrections and sheriff services component chairman Dean Purdy stated in March 2010 that there had been 63 assaults on the centre's guards by inmates since 2003 when the jail became overcrowded due to the closing of nine other British Columbia jails.