Community Corrections Programs

Community Corrections services cover all non-custody, community-based offender services and programs. Twenty-seven community corrections offices are located across the province, eleven in First Nations communities. With help from volunteers and other service providers, probation officers supervise:

probation and conditional sentences
youth justice committees
custody reintegration programs
court reports
provision of behaviour intervention programs

Special programs are designed for:

sex offenders
female offenders
assault offenders
custody offenders re-entering their communities
Aboriginal offenders.

Programs and supervision are based on the risks presented by offenders and how likely they are to re-offend. Higher-risk offenders receive more intensive services and programs. Partnerships between Corrections and community agencies improve the delivery of correctional programs and services.

The partnerships include:

school divisions
police
business associations
youth social service agencies
offender advocate agencies
Aboriginal agencies
provincial and federal government departments

Programs include:

gang diversion
Aboriginal culture
custody alternatives
employment preparation

Programs at Manitoba Correctional Centres

Adult correctional centres provide programs that focus on inmate personal development and growth through education opportunities, rehabilitation programs, vocational training, work experience and individual counselling.

Youth correctional centres provide programs that focus on the youth's personal development and growth, including education opportunities, rehabilitation programs, vocational training, work experience and spiritual programs.