The Offender Management System (OMS)

What is the Offender Management System?

Offender Management System

The Offender Management System (OMS) is a computerized case file management system used by the Correctional Service of Canada, the National Parole Board, and other criminal justice partners, to manage information on federal offenders throughout their sentences. The system gathers, stores, and retrieves information required for tracking offenders and making decisions concerning their cases. Information on provincial offenders applying for parole in provinces without their own parole boards is also stored in OMS.

Why was the Offender Management System renewed?

With the creation of the Canada Public Safety Information Network (CPSIN) in 1999, Cabinet allocated funds to the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and the National Parole Board (NPB) to enhance information sharing and for the two organizations to develop a new Offender Management System (OMS), which would:

  • supply more accurate and timely offender information sharing through electronic means; and
  • provide effective reintegration and case management tools to collect all offender-related information for use and sharing necessary for effective corrections and decisions for conditional release.

For those reasons in May 2001, a $47 million renewal project of the Offender Management System was started. In November 2006, the new version of OMS was implemented with success throughout the country in all institutions and CSC offices.

Though the technical renewal is now complete, the OMS Renewal team continues its work creating new modules for the System, as well as advancing CSC's information sharing initiatives and partnerships. For more on these initiatives, please consult the Improved Information Sharing section.