Correctional Services
Jurisdiction
In carrying out its correctional services mandate, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services has jurisdiction over:
- offenders 18 years of age and over who are:
- sentenced to terms of imprisonment of less than two years, and/or
- terms of probation of up to three years, or
- conditional sentences of up to two years less a day
- offenders under parole supervision, as granted by the
Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board - adults on remand, awaiting trial or sentencing
- adults held for immigration hearing or deportation
- offenders awaiting transfer to federal institutions to serve sentences of two years or more.
The ministry maintains 31 correctional facilities that include:
- correctional centres
- detention centres
- jails, and
- treatment centres
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