Corrections Canada

Corrections Canada (French: Services correctionnels), officially the Canada Correctional Services Agency (CCSA; Agence des services correctionnels du Canada, ASCC), is an office/directorate of Public Security Canada, the Canadian federal government's interior ministry, which is overseen by the Solicitor General of Canada, the second-highest ranking legal official in the Cabinet of Canada, after the Attorney General. The Solicitor General also oversees the activities of the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canada Sheriff Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie's civilian operations, and the Parole Board of Canada.

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.