Adult Offenders

Facilities

The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services operates the following adult facilities:

Correctional Centres

• Correctional centres house sentenced offenders typically serving periods of incarceration from 60 days to a maximum of two years less a day.
• Offenders serving their sentences in correctional centres are eligible for education, counselling and work experience programs.

Jails and Detention Centres

• Jails are older, generally smaller institutions originally established by counties or other municipalities.
• Detention centres are larger, more modern facilities built to serve the needs of several regions.
• Jails and detention centres serve as the point of entry into the institutional system. They hold:
• persons on remand (awaiting trial, sentencing or other proceedings);
• offenders sentenced to short terms (approximately 60 days or less); and
• offenders awaiting transfer to a federal or provincial correctional facility.
• Both types of facilities are maximum security.

Treatment Centres

• Treatment centres provide specialized and intensive treatment for motivated offenders with clearly identified problems relating to substance abuse, sexual misconduct, impulse control and anger management.
• These facilities are staffed by professional clinical personnel employed by, or under contract to, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.