correctional_facilities

Where B.C.'s correctional facilities are, from the province's Correctional Facilities layer on DataBC, read live: name, type (prison, youth custody or pretrial), town, address, website and position. Filter by name, town, type, or distance from a point. Facility locations only: nothing about the people held in or working at a facility, and no counts, capacity, security level or operator (the layer does not say whether a facility is federal or provincial).

Cost: 3 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• name (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• locality (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• type (prison, youth custody, pretrial, optional)
• lat (number, optional): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, optional): min -140, max -113
• radius_km (number, optional): min 0.5, max 200
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50, default 30

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/correctional_facilities \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool correctional_facilities with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"correctional_facilities","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.