Community Corrections In Canada

Community Corrections in Canada A Majority of Canada's federal offender population only a portion serve part of their sentences in prison. Canada, like the US offers the chance for offenders to serve in the community, adhering to certain conditions and be supervised by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). While the maximum length to be on probation is 3yrs, on any given day there will be about 95,680 more offenders on some form of conditional release supervised by the CSC. The country believes such work is essential because “experience has shown a majority of offenders are more likely to become law-abiding citizens if they participate in a program of gradual, supervised release.” Currently woman account for 20% of those released on

CSC manages and maintains 91 parole offices, 15 community correctional centers and 200+ community residential facilities. In Canada to become employed as a parole/probation officer you must hold a degree in one of the following fields: social work, psychology, sociology, and criminology, possess strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as counselling/assessment skills, and be able to establish and maintain client relationships. Plus, once hired in all new probation/parole officers must successfully complete a comprehensive basic training program that builds on the research and principles of effective correctional intervention and programming. They’re given ongoing training in subjects that’ll help them perform their duties in a professional and effective

They also make the parole decisions for offenders serving sentences of less than two years in all provinces/territories with the exception of Ontario and Quebec, which have their own parole boards. Penitentiaries and parole supervision are overseen by the Correctional Service of Canada under the federal Corrections and Conditional Release Act. The National Parole Board is the conditional release judgement -maker under the same Act. It is an independent administrative tribunal of government appointees who make case by case release decisions. Canada also has a strategic plan for indigenous corrections to respond to their needs in the community due to the high amount that re-enter the system. The first person to be granted ticket of leave in Canada was Henry A. Clermont, who had been convicted of stealing a letter. On November 1899, he was released from St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary in Montreal. The Canadian Ticket of Leave Act was based almost word for word on the British legislation. There was no reference in the text to the purpose of conditional release, though ticket of leave was generally understood to be a form of pardon. It wasn’t until 1959 when the Parole Board of Canada was created under the Parole Act. Probation is a sentence that may be passed down by a court pursuant to the