Overview

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

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

We 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:
    • sentenced to terms of imprisonment of less than two years
    • terms of probation of up to three years
    • conditional sentences of up to two years

Careers in correctional services

Learn about different jobs in correctional services, how to qualify for a position and find career and volunteer opportunities

Learn about careers in correctional services

Learn about the roles and responsibilities of different careers in correctional services.

Become a correctional officer

Find out how to apply to become a correctional officer and learn about the recruitment and selection process.

Become a probation and parole officer

Learn how to become a probation or parole officer, the eligibility requirements and on the job training.

Correctional officers

Learn about working as a correctional officer in Ontario.

Code of conduct and professionalism

Learn about the behavioural code of conduct and professionalism policy for people working in correctional services.

Volunteer opportunities in correctional services

Learn about volunteer opportunities in correctional services and how you can apply.

Correctional facilities and community corrections

Offenders can be sentenced to serve time in a correctional facility, in their community while being supervised, or both. Get information about correctional facilities in Ontario and community corrections.

Correctional facilities

Learn about the different types of provincial adult correctional facilities in Ontario, where they’re located, visiting hours and contact information.

Visiting policy for adult correctional facilities

Learn about the rules and what to expect when visiting an inmate at a provincial adult correctional facility in Ontario.

Sentences in the criminal justice system

Learn about what happens when an offender is found guilty and the different types of sentences.

Release from custody

Learn about the ways offenders can be released from custody, including parole eligibility.

Locations of probation and parole offices

Find a list of all provincial probation and parole offices located in Ontario, and their opening hours and contact information.

Probation and parole

Learn about probation and parole in Ontario and how offenders are supervised while in the community.

Rehabilitation programs and services for offenders

Learn about programs and services offered to inmates in Ontario’s correctional facilities or offenders who are serving time in the community.

GPS monitoring program

Learn about how GPS monitoring is used to supervise offenders in Ontario.


Victim notification services

Learn about different services to support victims of crime and those who have been affected by an offender, including the rights of victims at parole hearings.

Rates of recidivism in Ontario

Learn about rates of recidivism or re-offending in Ontario.

Education records

Find education records from correctional institutions in Ontario in operation between 1965 and 2021.

Reports and publications

Access: Defence teleconference system

How lawyers can book free teleconference appointments with clients at select correctional facilities in Ontario.

Correctional services policies and guidelines

Find correctional services policies and guidelines about human rights, Indigenous spirituality, transgender inmates, inmate classification and telephone communication.

Correctional services research

Academic organizations interested in conducting research on Ontario’s adult correctional services may contact solgenresearch@ontario.ca for more information.