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Substance use is a persistent area of criminogenic need for many federally sentenced men. This research project examined how substance use was related to post-release revocations with and without an offence. Please note that this report is a one page summary. If you wish to have a copy of the...

Section 84 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA) provides the opportunity for Indigenous offenders to serve their conditional or statutory release within the custody and care of an Indigenous community. Please note that this report is a one page summary. If you wish to have a copy...

A Correctional Officer Onboarding Program is being piloted at Kent Institution in response to concerns surrounding organizational culture. The program's objective is to support new Correctional Officers (COs) in their transition from the Correctional Service Canada's (CSC) Training Academy to the...

Security threat group, (STG) affiliation among offenders poses operational, safety, and security concerns for federal institutions in Canada. In a recent study, Indigenous offenders accounted for almost half of STG affiliated men and 90% of STG affiliated women in-custody. This study synthesizes...

Indigenous Intervention Centres (IICs) were developed to maximize Indigenous resources and services across a smaller number of institutions in order to provide a culturally responsive and integrated approach to case management.

Previous research shows that women offenders' substance use patterns vary across regions. This study was completed to highlight the varying substance use profiles of the Correctional Service of Canada's (CSC) five geographic regions: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie, and Pacific.

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 needle sharing, the potential risk of overdose, and involvement in the drug subculture.

The goal of this qualitative research is to gain an understanding of the collective impacts that women's Healing Lodges have on Indigenous offenders, as well as the challenges that are currently facing the operation of these sites.

This research aims to examine the effectiveness of the Onboarding Program through the consideration of its impact on both Correctional Officers (Cos) and on the broader institutional environment.

Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is an effective intervention for the care of persons with opioid use disorder (OUD). Previous studies show that maintaining OAT not only contributes to reducing the number of overdoses but also addresses the health needs of the general and mainstream population.