Ontario’s Correctional Services establishes, maintains, operates and monitors adult correctional institutions, probation and parole offices.

Provide programs and facilities to help rehabilitate offenders and have jurisdiction over adult offenders who are granted parole by the Ontario Parole Board

Oversee offenders who are:

• adults awaiting trial or sentencing
• adults held for immigration hearing or deportation
• awaiting transfer to federal institutions to serve sentences of two years or more
• 18 years of age and over who are:
  1. sentenced to terms of imprisonment of less than two years
  2. terms of probation of up to three years
  3. conditional sentences of up to two years

Correctional centres house sentenced offenders who are 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
• work experience programs