Correctional Interventions

Institutional Functions, Programs and Activities

2.0  Correctional Interventions

Correctional Interventions, which occurs in both institutions and communities, are necessary to help bring positive changes in behaviour and to successfully reintegrate offenders. It aims to address problems that are directly related to offenders' criminal behaviour and that interfere with their ability to function as law-abiding members of society.

2.1  Offender Case Management

Offender Case Management encompasses all activities at the community, institutional, regional and national levels related to offender risks and needs assessment; the development, implementation and management of individualized offender correctional plans, institutional and community case supervision, as well as, overall sentence management. Offender Case Management provides the roadmap for addressing the risks and needs posed by each offender and ensures that a consistent approach is taken to the utilization of public funds in the process of correctional interventions. Key activities include intake assessment, penitentiary placement, offender transfers, case preparation and release, the provision of appropriate institutional and community supervision based on the risks and needs present in each case, as well as numerous other reintegration issues. The continuum of Offender Management - intake assessment, institutional accommodation and intervention, case preparation and release, community supervision - contributes to ensuring the gradual and safe reintegration of offenders into society.

Aboriginal Initiatives

Description: Records related to the cultural and spiritual needs of Aboriginal offenders.

Document Types: Annual reports, audit and evaluation reports, contracts, correspondence, forms, frameworks, manuals, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, memoranda, notes, policies, presentations, procedures and guidelines, research reports, statistics, studies, surveys, templates, terms of reference, training material.

Record Number: CSC SDC 010

Case Management

Description: Records related to the assessment of offenders and the development of a correctional plan for the offender.

Document Types: Application forms, assessment tools, correspondence, decision papers, findings and recommendations, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, police reports, policies, procedures and guidelines, progress reports, protocols, recommendations, screening tools, templates, threat risk assessments.

Record Number: CSC COP 050

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Sentence Management

Description: Records related to offenders on admission and release, computation of sentences and remission.

Document Types: Correspondence, court transcripts, decision papers, directives, forms, findings and recommendations, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, police reports, policies, procedures and guidelines, recommendations, threat risk assessments.

Record Number: CSC COP 420

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Transfers of Offenders

Description: Records related to the transfer of offenders between institutions and regions, to and from provinces, international transfers to and from Canada and international transfers of provincial offenders.

Document Types: Application forms, briefing notes, correspondence, court transcripts, decision papers, forms, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, police reports, policies, procedures and guidelines, recommendations, threat risk assessments.

Record Number: CSC COP 460

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Women Offenders

Description: Records related to the management of Women Offenders.

Document Types: Audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, findings and recommendations, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, memoranda of understanding, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, speaking notes, statistics and statistical reports.

Record Number: CSC WOS 010

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2.2  Community Engagement

Community Engagement encompasses all activities related to enhancing the engagement of citizens as partners in the fulfillment of the correctional mandate. Key activities include raising public awareness and improving confidence in federal corrections; providing victims with information, creating collaborative working relationships with various segments of the community, including citizens, non-governmental agencies, other government departments and offenders who have successfully reintegrated into the community; and negotiating partnership agreements with various stakeholders. 

LifeLine

Description: Records related to the history and development of the LifeLine program, its service delivery, mission statement, strategic framework, and partners.

Note: The LifeLine program was terminated on August 31, 2012.

Document Types: Annual reports, assessment tools, audit and evaluation reports, awards, budget reports, code of ethics, contracts, correspondence, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentation and training material, progress reports, research reports, screening tools, statistics and statistical reports, studies, templates, work plans.

Record Number: CSC CCE 050

Restorative Justice

Description: Records related to the services offered by the Restorative Justice Program.

Document Types: Audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, communication plans, directives, fact sheets, forms, frameworks, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, newsletters, notes, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, reference material, speaking notes, statistics and statistical reports, terms of reference, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 010

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Victims

Description: Records related to the Victim Services Program which seeks to provide victims of federal offenders with timely information about the offender who harmed them.

Document Types: Agreements, annual reports, assessment tools, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, communication plans, consultation reports, decision papers, fact sheets, forms, findings and recommendations, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, notes, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, outreach strategy, progress reports, proposals, protocols, reference material, research reports, speaking notes, statistics and statistical reports, studies, telephone logs, templates, terms of reference, Treasury Board submissions, work plans.

Record Number: CSC CCE 475

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Volunteers

Description: Records related to volunteer services within CSC.

Document Types: Application forms, awards, correspondence, communication plans, directives, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memberships, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, protocols, recommendations, reference material, statistics and statistical reports, terms of reference, work plans.

Record Number: CSC CCE 080

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2.3  Spiritual Services

Spiritual Services encompasses all activities related to the provision of spiritual guidance to offenders of all religious traditions. Key activities include directing and coordinating religious services and sacramental ministry to inmates, creating, coordinating, and delivering religious activities, interpreting to the community the needs and concerns of persons affected by the criminal justice system and educating the community concerning their role in reconciliation as well as establishing and maintaining partnerships to assist ex-offenders to live in the community as law-abiding citizens. It also includes Elder/Spiritual Advisor Services in the community and in institutions.

Chaplaincy

Description: Records related to spiritual services provided to assist offenders during incarceration and reintegration.

Document Types: Briefing notes, contracts, correspondence, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material.

Record Number: CSC COP 060

Social and Cultural Development

Description: Information on programs designed to enhance the offender's social, cultural and physical development, including associations, entertainment, hobby crafts, movies and television, sports activities, concerts put on by visiting groups, physical education and recreation (including the Exceptional People's Olympiad).

Document Types: Contracts, correspondence, forms, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Record Number: CSC COP 440

2.4  Correctional Reintegration Program

The Correctional Reintegration Program encompasses all activities related to correctional programs designed to specifically address the dynamic risk factors of offenders including the pilot on Integrated Correctional Program Model. Key activities include the development, implementation, delivery and effective management of correctional programs in the core areas of Education, Substance Abuse Prevention, Sexual Offending Prevention, Family Violence Prevention, and Violence Prevention. Correctional programs are designed to address the criminogenic factors of the offender population and contribute to each offender's successful reintegration into the community by ensuring a continuum of care between institutions and the community thereby minimizing their risk of re-offending.

Reintegration Programs

Description: Records related to correctional programs designed to address the criminogenic factors of offenders and contribute to their successful reintegration. Programs include: General Crime Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention, Sexual Offending Prevention, Family Violence Prevention, Violence Prevention, the Integrated Correctional Program Model, the Aboriginal Integrated Correctional Program Model, Aboriginal Correctional Programs, and Women Offender Correctional Programs.

Document Types: Annual reports, application forms, assessment tools, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, contracts, correspondence, consultation reports, forms, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, proposals, protocols, recommendations, reference material, research reports, screening tools, statistics and statistical reports, studies, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 350

2.5  Offender Education

Offender education programs are designed to educate offenders and prepare them for participation in correctional and employability programs by increasing their level of education, comprehension and critical thinking to optimize the impact of the interventions and ultimately allow them to compete lawfully in the community. Key activities include providing offenders with opportunities to acquire basic education and skills appropriate to their needs, achievements and abilities.  Educational curriculum programs offered within institutions are provincially accredited or certified.

Academic Training

Description: Records related to educational programs designed to assist offenders with reintegration into the community as law-abiding citizens. Programs include: Adult Basic Education, Vocational Education and Post-secondary Education.

Document Types: Assessment tools, briefing notes, correspondence, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, reference material.

Record Number: CSC COP 140

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Provincial Liaison and Accreditation

Description: Records related to the liaison with provincial governments on accreditation and issue of trades' certificates and work placements.

Document Types: Briefing notes, contracts, correspondence, forms, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, memoranda of understanding, policies, procedures and guidelines, protocols.

Record Number: CSC COP 320

Vocational Training

Description: Records related to commercial training, manufacturing trades and small business courses.

Document Types: Briefing notes, correspondence, forms, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material.

Record Number: CSC COP 490

2.6  CORCAN Employment and Employability

CORCAN Employment and Employability is focused on Employment Skills Development to meet the specific demands of the labour market while preparing offenders for release. It includes employment training and career planning programs for inmates and is designed to allow offenders to acquire skills, attitudes and behaviours valued by employers. CORCAN provides employment services and job placement to offenders after release. The CORCAN program plays a key role in CSC's efforts to actively encourage offenders to become law-abiding citizens. Vocational Education, Employment Skills and Career Counselling, Specific Employment Skills, On-job Training and National Employability Skills Program are also included in this program.

Benefits, Incentives and Pay Administration Plan

Description: Records related to offender pay, work incentives and the pay administration plan.

Document Types: Application forms, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, correspondence, directives, forms, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, protocols, statistics and statistical reports.

Record Number: CSC COP 040

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Industries

Description: Records related to industrial operations.

Document Types: Agreements, application forms, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, forms, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memberships, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, proposals, statistics and statistical reports, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 210

Inmate Employment

Description: Records relating to the employment of offenders both within the institution and externally while they are serving a sentence.

Document Types: Agreements, application forms, assessment tools, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, directives, forms, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, progress reports, protocols, screening tools, statistics and statistical reports, threat risk assessments.

Record Number: CSC COP 230

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Marketing

Description: Records related to the development of markets and products.

Document Types: Agreements, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, communication plans, directives, forms, findings and recommendations, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, progress reports, proposals, protocols, recommendations, statistics and statistical reports, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 260

Production Program

Description: Records related to manufacturing, inventory control, quality control and quality assurance of products manufactured by CSC.

Document Types: Agreements, assessment tools, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, directives, fact sheets, forms, findings and recommendations, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, progress reports, proposals, protocols, recommendations, reference material, standards, statistics and statistical reports, terms of reference, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 310

Reports and Statistics

Description: Records related to a

Document Types: Briefing  notes, budget reports, correspondence, findings and recommendations, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, progress reports, standards, statistics and statistical reports, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 370

Sales

Description: Records related to the sale of products made by offenders.

Document Types: Contracts, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, memoranda, notes, reports.

Record Number: CSC COP 380

Shops

Description: Records related to the organization, administration and layout of industrial shops.

Document Types: Agreements, briefing notes, budget reports, contracts, correspondence, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, policies, procedures and guidelines, standards, statistics and statistical reports, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 430

Work Opportunities

Description: Records related to the administration of Work Opportunities for offenders.

Document Types: Agreements, application forms, briefing notes, contracts, correspondence, forms, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, progress reports, recommendations.

Record Number: CSC COP 500

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