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Head office of the Correctional Service of Canada in Ottawa. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC; French: Service correctionnel du Canada), also known as Correctional Service Canada or Corrections Canada, is the Canadian federal government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted criminal offenders sentenced to two years or more. [3]
This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails.. In Canada, all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
The Regional Reception Centre (French: Centre régional de réception [3]) is a Canadian federal prison for men located with Archambault Institution at the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) complex at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, a short distance from Mirabel International Airport.
In Canada, the criminal legal system is divided into federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions. Provincial/territorial correctional facilities hold people who have been sentenced to less than two years in custody and people being held on remand (waiting trial or sentencing).
Ferndale Institution is the former name of the minimum-security federal correctional annex of Mission Institution, now referred as Mission Minimum Institution.Is located in Mission, British Columbia, in the central Fraser Valley, about 80 kilometres east of Vancouver.
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; French: Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. [2] It comprises nine justices, whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law, and grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts.
Matsqui Institution is a federal medium-security prison facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, about 70 kilometres east of Vancouver.The Institution is operated by the Correctional Service of Canada and was opened in 1966.
CSC has been criticized about the lack of follow through with the Arbour Report recommendations. [21] Women continue to be housed at higher security levels, [22] [21] classification tools discriminate on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and mental health. [23] [24] [25] In 1996, women in maximum security were isolated in men's prisons ...