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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.

Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC) 2023-2027 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (DSDS), our ninth DSDS since 1997, commits once more to numerous energy, water and waste reduction measures that demonstrate departmental ownership to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This latest...

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...

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 ongoing tracking efforts, the current study provides an overview of non-fatal overdose incidents in federal institutions in...

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.

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 corresponded with the first full Fiscal Year associated with COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.