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CSC achieves its public safety goals by effectively managing institutions of different security levels, supervising offenders on various forms of conditional release, and providing programs and services that contribute to ensuring that criminals only end up behind bars once in their life.

This report features the results achieved by CSC, and informs Canadians of the work undertaken to rehabilitate and safely reintegrate offenders back into communities while providing safe correctional environments for those who work and live in its facilities.

Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady increase in the number of Indigenous offenders under federal jurisdiction [from 3,058 at year-end in 2000-01 to 6,027 in 2019-20].

Indigenous men and women are serving more sentences in federal custody for violent offences than non-Indigenous.

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 require a sufficient number of correctional, educational and vocational programs. Upon conditional release, they require...

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has an ethnoculturally diverse offender population. Study 1 of a three-part study examined diversity trends over an 11-year period in the federal offender population specific to non-White and non-Indigenous offenders.

Statistics Population profiles of federally sentenced men will yield different pictures depending on whether they are based on admissions drawn over a period time or an in-custody snapshot taken at a particular point in time. Demographic and sentence information is recorded for every offender and...

Offender complaints and grievances being received have declined across all levels and priority in federal corrections.

Improved efficiencies and increased capacity have dramatically reduced the backlog of offender grievances at the final level.

In collaboration with the Indigenous Initiatives Directorate, this study represents the first phase of research examining the impacts of IICs on the progress and outcomes of Indigenous offenders.