Kingston developer looks to purchase, renovate notorious P4W prison

A Kingston developer has plans to renovate the former Prison for Women site.
The Doornekamp family’s ABNA Investment Ltd. has an approved offer to buy the 3.27-hectare property from Queen’s University, which purchased it in 2007 but didn’t follow through on plans to renovate the building on Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard to house its archives.
The P4W, which held maximum security inmates such as Karla Homolka, took its first inmates in 1934 and was closed in 2000. In 1994, the