Community Supervision

Institutional Functions, Programs and Activities

3.0  Community Supervision

The Community Supervision Program ensures eligible offenders are safely reintegrated into communities through the provision of housing and health services, where required, as well as staff supervision for the duration of the offenders sentence. The expected results are offenders who are reintegrated into the community as law-abiding citizens while maintaining a level of supervision, which contributes to public safety.

3.1  Community Management and Security

Community Management and Security encompasses all activities related to the supervision and management of offenders in the community in an effort to ensure safe reintegration of offenders thereby contributing to public safety. Key activities include the provision of key operational management, direction and services in the community, promoting and facilitating the development of national policies, strategies and procedures in support of the safe reintegration of offenders into the community, monitoring of offender behaviour and involvement in programming, liaising with numerous non-profit organizations which are managing offender half-way houses and other facilities. This also includes the activities of the District Directors, the Associate District Director, Area Directors, Community Correctional Liaison Officers, etc, in the community as well as community reintegration activities at NHQ. Community Management includes the operation of parole offices and Community Correctional Centres (CCC's).

Citizens' Advisory Committees

Description: Records related to the role of CAC members, their advice and recommendations regarding correctional operations, programs, policies, plans, day-to-day activities and operations of CSC, correctional issues and the activities they undertake to support their roles and responsibilities.

Document Types: Annual reports, application forms, audit and evaluation tools, briefing notes, budget reports, correspondence, communication plans, directives, findings and recommendations, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memberships, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, progress reports, protocols, recommendations, resignations, studies, templates, terms of reference, work plans.

Record Number: CSC CCE 010

Electronic Monitoring Program

Description: Records related to the Electronic Monitoring Supervision strategy.

Note: Electronic Monitoring services were offered from 2008 to 2011.

Document Types: Briefing notes, contracts, correspondence, forms, findings and recommendations, frameworks, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, statistics and statistical reports, terms of reference, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 301

Policy and Procedures - Community Release

Description: Records related to the development of policies and procedures in preparation for community release.

Document Types: Briefing notes, correspondence, consultation reports, directives, findings and recommendations, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, speaking notes, statistics and statistical reports.

Record Number: CSC COP 300

Release

Description: Records related to the case preparation for Release and case supervision after Release.

Document Types: Application forms, assessment tools, briefing notes, correspondence, directives, forms, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, protocols, recommendations.

Record Number: CSC COP 360

3.2  Community-Based Residential Facilities

Community-based residential facilities encompasses all activities related to the provision of a structured and supportive environment during the gradual reintegration process specifically through the provision of residency for offenders on parole, statutory release, temporary absence or Long Term Supervision Orders. Key activities include ensuring that community supervision, offender contact, interventions and monitoring of conditions of release address the need areas associated with the offender's risk to re-offend and those necessary to encourage safe reintegration. Residential services are considered to be an essential component of CSC's supervision framework and are of paramount importance in enhancing the safety of Canadian communities. CSC contracts with numerous non-governmental organizations to provide Community Residential Facility services, support and monitoring to offenders on release.

Community Residential Centres

Description: Records related to the planning and operational aspects of Community Correctional Centres, Community Based Residential Facilities and parole supervision (including liaison with provincial parole services and partner ships with community agencies) for services such as parole supervision and residential services.

Document Types: Agreements, application forms, assessment tools, briefing notes, contracts, correspondence, forms, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, police reports, policies, procedures and guidelines, recommendations, speaking notes, screening tools, statistics and statistical reports, threat risk assessments, work plans.

Record Number: CSC COP 080

Community Staff Safety Program (CSSP)

Description: Records related to ways to enhance and manage the safety and security of staff working with offenders in the community.

Document Types: Audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, correspondence, communication plans, frameworks, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda of understanding, notes, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, protocols, threat risk assessments, work plans. 

RDA Number: 2004-015

Record Number: CSC COP 302

3.3  Community Health Services

CSC provides limited mental health services to offenders in the community to contribute to the inmate’s rehabilitation and successful reintegration into the community. CSC pays, on a fee-for-service basis, the costs associated with essential health services for non-insured offenders in the community.

Community Health Services

Description: Records related to the mental health services provided by CSC to offenders in the community and the essential health services for non-insured offenders in the community paid for by CSC.

Document Types: Agreements, assessment tools, audit and evaluation reports, briefing notes, budget reports, correspondence, communication plans, consultation reports, directives, fact sheets, forms, findings and recommendations, frameworks, legal opinions, letters, meeting agendas and minutes, memoranda, newsletters, notes, pamphlets/brochures, policies, procedures and guidelines, presentations and training material, progress reports, protocols, recommendations, reference material, research reports, standards, speaking notes, screening tools, statistics and statistical reports, terms of reference, Treasury Board submissions, work plans.

Record Number: CSC HS 7030