Ontario Corrections

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Ontario Corrections (French: Corrections Ontario), officially the Correctional Services of Ontario (Services correctionnels de l'Ontario), is an agency of the provincial government (Executive Council) of Ontario, the most populous province of Canada. It is one of three main agencies for which the Solicitor General of Ontario is responsible, along with the Parole Board of Ontario and the Ontario Judicial Library and Legal Record.

Ontario Corrections is responsible for the management and operation of all prisons located within the province not coming under the jurisdiction of the Canadian federal government. As only the most serious of convicts serve in federal institutions, the great majority of Ontario's incarcerated population is the responsibility of Ontario Corrections. The largest faculty currently operated by Ontario Corrections is the Washago Institution, located in Simcoe County, about 100 kilometres north of Toronto.