227 datasets found

Security threat group, (STG) affiliation among offenders poses operational, safety, and security concerns for federal institutions in Canada. In a recent study, Indigenous...

The Custody Rating Scale (CRS) continues to hold predictive validity for Indigenous women offenders at intake. The Custody Rating Scale (CRS) is an instrument employed by the...

Ministerial transition binder: January 2025

In collaboration with Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the University of Ottawa, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) conducted the 2022 National Health Survey. One of the...

This pilot study supports the feasibility and utility of using technology-based assessments of impulsive behaviour and risky decision-making in a sample of adult offenders...

As part of ongoing monitoring efforts, the current study provides a summary of non-fatal overdose incidents that occurred within Canadian federal institutions in fiscal year...

Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) were incorporated into the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) on November 30th, 2019. Such units are intended to provide intervention-...

Healing Lodges are environments that are centered on Indigenous values, traditions, and beliefs. Within a correctional context, they offer interventions for Indigenous peoples...

As part of ongoing monitoring efforts, the current study provides an overview of non-fatal overdose incidents that occurred in a federal institution in 2020-2021, which...

The criminal record of every offender admitted and re-admitted to federal custody is systematically documented at time of admission for prior youth (<18) and/or adult...

An Act respecting corrections and the conditional release and detention of offenders and to establish the office of Correctional Investigator.

The age structure of an incarcerated population establishes potential for future growth of specific age groups, as well as the total in-custody population. Younger inmates...

Available empirical studies (that provide new data, not opinion) were gathered from 1987 to 2019 on the CRS. Select quotes were extracted from the publications that highlight...

The reporting landscape around sexual victimization has changed following new Correctional Service Canada (CSC) policy.

Corresponding with the opioid crisis in Canada, there has been a notable increase in the number of overdose incidents in federal custody (McKendy et al., 2020). As part of...

Substance use during incarceration may present important health and safety concerns for offenders, such as the transmission of blood borne infections via injection drug use and...

Women’s Healing Lodges offer culturally-relevant support through a trauma-informed and gender-based lens. Healing Lodges are environments that use Indigenous values, traditions,...

CSC remains committed to developing and maintaining a strong, inclusive, and diverse workforce that not only reflects the Canadian population, but also the populations we serve....

Understanding the reasons for Security Threat Group (STG) disaffiliation may assist the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) in encouraging and supporting offenders to disengage...

Over the course of two recent fiscal years (2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022), marked by the COVID-19 pandemic era, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) experienced an...