Corrections Canada

Corrections Canada, officially the Canadian Federal Correctional Service (CFCS), is an office/directorate of the Canadian federal government's Department of Justice, which is overseen by the Solicitor General of Canada, the federal Department of Justice's second-most high-ranking official, after the Attorney General of Canada. The Solicitor General also oversees the Canada Sheriff Service.

Corrections Canada is responsible for operating all federal prisons in the country. Unlike many other federal sovereign states, in Canada, prisoners convicted in a provincial or territorial judicial system of a crime resulting in a sentence of two years or more are automatically transferred to the custody of federal prisons, although their legal case remains at the provincial level at it is up to provincial administrators to decide on issues such as bail, early release, probation, parole, etc. As such, all maximum-security prisons in Canada are federal prisons, with provincial prisons and remand centres as well as county/district jails closer to medium-security; there are also some low-security institutions for the infirm or mentally ill as well as convicted drug-addicted persons.