---
title: "Correctional Service Canada"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/correctional-service-canada"
description: "Correctional Service Canada, Government of Canada. Official website: canada.ca. Portfolio: Public Safety Canada. Description from GC InfoBase."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Correctional Service Canada

Government of Canada · Agencies

Compiled by Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026. Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## About

The Correctional Service of Canada carries out sentences imposed by the courts through the safe and humane custody and supervision of offenders. It helps offenders return to the community as law-abiding citizens through programs in penitentiaries and in the community.

Source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## Facts

- Jurisdiction: Government of Canada
- Layer: Agencies
- Class: Departmental Agencies
- Portfolio: [Public Safety Canada](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/public-safety-canada)
- Wikidata: [Q3480093](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3480093)

## Official websites

- [canada.ca/correctional-service](https://www.canada.ca/correctional-service)
- [canada.ca/service-correctionnel](https://www.canada.ca/service-correctionnel)

## Sources

- Description source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Record from: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## More

- [View it in the explorer](https://canadaservicemap.ca/explore?sel=ifoi:117), with the sources of its record.
- [Data and sources](https://canadaservicemap.ca/data): every record keeps the licence of its source.

## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Correctional Service Canada", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/correctional-service-canada