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Women sex offenders have high needs in the personal/emotional and family/marital domains. Completing the women’s sex offender program increases offender skills.

Welcome to Prisons Inside/Out, a new podcast series from Correctional Service Canada (CSC). Follow along as we take you beyond the walls of our institutions, highlighting the important work we do to protect Canadians and change lives every day.

Ministerial transition binder: January 2025

We prepared a video highlighting the important role of CSC in Canada. It is meant to increase transparency of what we do and why, and how it contributes to public safety.

This report provides an overview of self-report responses from the 2022 National Health Survey, as well as an examination of serological data to determine prevalence estimates of infectious diseases in women’s institutions, such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and...

To facilitate initial security classification, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) currently uses the Custody Rating Scale (CRS) which consists of two independently scored subscales; the Institutional Adjustment (IA) subscale that assesses risks associated with institutional misconducts, and the...

In 2010, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) commenced implementation of a holistic, gender- and culture-informed model of correctional programing for women offenders. To fulfill a recommendation in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada’s report, Preparing Women Offenders for Release...

Substance use issues continue to be prevalent among women offenders, particularly Indigenous women.

The composition of the correctional population as it relates to different age groups provides for emerging challenges and specific rehabilitative needs relative to various age groups. Younger inmates often require a sufficient number of correctional, educational and/or vocational programs.