Overview
Canada's correctional system is two-tiered, consisting of federal offenders-those serving sentences of two years or more in federal penitentiaries-and those under provincial/territorial jurisdiction, who serve sentences of less than two years. Canada's incarceration rate is low relative to the United States, but high compared with many European countries, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Selected Readings
Managing Addictions
Forum on Corrections Research, Correctional Service Canada (CSC), Vol. 18, Issue I, 2006
Self-Harm Among Criminalized Women [PDF]
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), August 2006
Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences: Why Everyone Loses
Briefing Paper, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, April 2006
Prison Needle Exchange: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review of International Evidence and Experience [PDF]
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2006
Assessing the Need for Prison-Based Needle Exchange Programs in Canada: A Situational Analysis [PDF]
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), December 2005
HIV/AIDS and HCV in Prisons: A Select Annotated Bibliography [PDF] Health Canada, November 2005
Drug Misuse Treatment and Reductions in Crime: Findings from the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) [PDF]
National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), U.K., June 2005
Harm Reduction Policies and Programs for Persons Involved in the Criminal Justice System [PDF] Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), May 2005
The Impact of Mandatory Drug Testing in Prisons [PDF] Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, U.K., 2005
A Gender-Specific Substance Abuse Program for Federally-Sentenced Women [PDF] Forum on Corrections Research, Correctional Service Canada (CSC), Vol. 16, Issue I, 2004
Substance Abuse in Corrections FAQ [PDF] Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), October 2004
Improving Our Health: Why is Canada Lagging Behind in Establishing Needle Exchange Programs in Prisons? [PDF]
Ontario Medical Association (OMA), October 2004
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Canadian Corrections System [PDF] Journal of FAS International, September 2003Related
Resources
HIV/AIDS in Prisons, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Substance Abuse Program, Correctional Service Canada (CSC)
Substance Abuse Program for Women, Correctional Service Canada (CSC)
Waseskun (Residential and intensive programming services for male Native offenders by contract with Correctional Services Canada and the Department of Public Security Quebec)