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OUR PROFILE

As of January 2010, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) has an annual budget of approximately $2.2 billion.

CSC has 17,400 employees, including:

7,200 correctional officers
2,550 parole and program officers
750 nurses
310 psychologists

ACROSS CANADA

In addition to our national headquarters in Ottawa, we have five regional headquarters:

Atlantic (Moncton)
Quebec (Laval)
Ontario (Kingston)
Prairies (Saskatoon)
Pacific (Abbotsford)

We manage and maintain:

57 penitentiaries

8 maximum security institutions
20 medium security institutions
16 minimum security institutions
13 multi-level security institutions
84 parole offices
16 Community Correctional Centres
200 Community Residential Facilities
Four healing lodges

AVERAGE ANNUAL COSTS

It costs $102,000 to maintain an offender in an institution; $25,000 to maintain an offender in the community.

OFFENDER PROFILE SNAPSHOT

CSC is responsible for over 22,000 offenders – over 13,000 are incarcerated and over 8,800 are under supervision in the community.

Of these offenders:
- 25 per cent are serving sentences for homicide
- 14 per cent are sex offenders
- 23 per cent have a robbery conviction
- 21 per cent are serving sentences for drug offences
- 51 per cent have substance abuse issues
- 57 per cent have no high school diploma
- 13 per cent identified as having a mental disorder upon admission (an increase of 86 per cent since 1997)
- Nine per cent were associated with gangs and other criminal organizations
Of the 13,280 offenders currently incarcerated:
- 24 per cent are serving life sentences
- 74 per cent are at various stages in fixed sentences
- 3.1 per cent are designated as dangerous offenders

OFFENDER REINTEGRATION

Our latest figures show that of the offenders on conditional release, which includes day or full parole, statutory release, or long-term supervision orders:

5.7 per cent re-offended (non-violent offence)
1.3 per cent re-offended (violent offence)

January 2010