2010–11 Part III - Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP)

3.2 Performance Indicators against Corporate Priorities

Cutting across the work of the Correctional Service are our Corporate Priorities that compliment the expected results under our Program Activity Architecture and our Transformation initiatives. At a high level, they describe how separate but related actions integrate on five over-arching outcomes where we must succeed:

Priority #1: Safe Transition of Eligible Offenders into the Community

Result Commitment:

Reduce the level of violent re-offending by federal offenders returning to the community over the next five years, as measured by:

  • The percentage of federal offenders in communities convicted of a violent offence while under CSC supervision;
  • The percentage of federal offenders convicted of a violent offence and returning to federal custody within two years of the end of their sentence; and
  • The percentage of federal offenders convicted of a violent offence within five years of the end of their sentence.

Priority #2: Safety and Security for Staff and Offenders in our Institutions

Result Commitment:

Reduce the level of violent behaviour within institutions over the next five years, as measured by the rate of security incidents.

Reduce in assaultive behaviour within institutions as measured by:

  • The rate of assaults on staff;
  • The rate of assaults on offenders;
  • The rate of injuries to staff caused by offenders; and
  • The rate of injuries to offenders caused by offenders.

Reduce illicit drugs within institutions as measured by the percentage of offenders testing positive during random urinalysis tests.

Priority #3: Enhance Capacities to Provide Effective Interventions FOR FIRST Nations, Métis and Inuit Offenders

Result Commitment:

Reduce the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal correctional results from widening, as measured by:

  • The percentage of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal federal offenders convicted of violent or non-violent offences in communities while under CSC supervision;
  • The percentage of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal federal offenders convicted of a violent or non-violent offence and returning to federal custody within two years of the end of their sentence; and
  • The percentage of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal federal offenders convicted of violent or non-violent offences within five years of the end of their sentence.

Priority #4: Improved capacities to address mental health needs of offenders

Result Commitment1

Sustaining current correctional results for federal offenders with mental health disorders, as measured by:

  • The percentage of federal offenders with mental health disorders returning to federal custody within two years of the end of their sentence.
  • The percentage of federal offenders with mental health disorders returning to federal custody within five years of the end of their sentence.

Priority #5: Strengthening management practices

Result Commitment:

A stronger contribution to public safety in priority areas, as measured by:

  • A healthy workplace that includes reductions in workplace conflicts in the areas of harassment, staff grievances, and improvements in mutual respect, trust, and accountability as reflected in employee surveys.
  • Improvements in management practices as reflected in Management Accountability Framework assessments by the Treasury Board Secretariat; and
  • Improvements in the areas of ethics, integrity, fairness, and respect, as measured through assessment against baseline data from employee surveys.

1 In the short term, CSC is limited to reporting results based on the mental health condition of offenders at admission. CSC is working toward implementing a more comprehensive measurement strategy which will capture both correctional and health performance.