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Currently, about one-third of all Indigenous offenders released from women's institutions participated in Section 84 releases; participation rates did not appear to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study examines the prevalence of Section 84 releases for Indigenous offenders...

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, and beliefs to offer culturally-appropriate services and programs for Indigenous offenders.

Security threat group affiliated offenders have unique and complex needs, behaviours, institutional experiences, and post-release outcomes. Previous research regarding Security Threat Group (STGs) affiliated offenders indicated that they pose operational and behavioural challenges while in custody.

Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) were incorporated into the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) on November 30th, 2019. Such units are intended to provide intervention-focused accommodations to offenders who cannot be safely managed in the mainstream offender population.

In this first episode of Prisons Inside/Out, we answer some of your most frequently asked questions to explore just that. Join us as we take a deep dive into Correctional Service Canada (CSC) and investigate the complexities and myths that surround our system.

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) delivers in-person correctional programs to target offenders’ criminogenic need areas. However, the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst to change how CSC delivers these programs. Please note that this report is a one page summary. If you wish to have a...

Recognizing the overrepresentation of Indigenous persons in the federal correctional system, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has incorporated a model of Indigenous corrections. This model includes specialized interventions and services at all sentence stages and ongoing...

The current study examined regional profiles for in-custody women at three different time points to further understand these differences and to provide more nuanced findings that can be used to inform future planning around resource allocation, infrastructure needs, and population management....

Projections that the Canadian federal correctional system would be facing a long-term overcrowding crisis and be forced into housing offenders in shared cells (“double-bunking”) had been substantially reversed in an earlier study.

Based on the CRI development data, a total of 24,972 men first releases (4,850 Indigenous and 19,996 Non-Indigenous) were gathered over a six-year period (2006-07 to 2011-12) and followed-up for returns to federal custody for any offence within a 3-year period. Cramer’s V and Area under the Curve...