CD 710: Institutional Supervision Framework

Institutional Roles and Responsibilities

• Institutional Head: Implements policies for supervision, monitors security reclassification (including for women), maintains the Correctional Plan, makes reclassification recommendations (medium security for specific inmates, minimum security for Dangerous Offenders), and resolves disagreements with the Case Management Team on these reclassifications, ensures high-profile offender procedures are followed. Also ensures policies in CD 784 (victim information sharing) are followed. The institutional head ensures inmates are assigned to a Parole Officer and Correctional Officer/Primary Worker within two working days of admission.

• Assistant Warden, Interventions: Collaborates with relevant staff to involve Indigenous Liason officers for inmates following a healing path, ensures completion of the Case Documentation Checklist, and chairs the Correctional Intervention Board

• Manager, Assessment and Interventions/Manager, Intensive Intervention Strategy: participates in the Correctional Intervention Board, ensures continuity of the Correctional Plan, ensures institutional case management and release strategies align with requirements and are developed with community managers, supervises Parole Officers and provides guidance through regular case conferences, identifies and addresses safety and security issues, ensures consistent information sharing.

• Correctional Manager: Establishes and maintains a quality control process for documents completed by Correctional Officer II/Primary Worker, follows up on outstanding actions in Structured Casework Records and identifies and addresses any safety and security issues.

• Security Intelligence Officer: Discloses security intelligence information to staff as needed and prepares summaries of protected intelligence information as required.

Institutional Supervision Framework Procedures

• CD 710-1: outlines processes for monitoring, assessing, and documenting inmate progress and changes to the Correctional Plan.
• CD 710-2: covers inmate transfer procedures.
• CD 710-3: details temporary absence policies.
• CD 710-4: outlines perimeter work clearance procedures.
• CD 710-5: establishes standards for judicial reviews of parole ineligibility.
• CD 710-6: specifies activities for ongoing monitoring and review of inmate security classifications.
• CD 710-7: details work release procedures.
• CD 710-8: describes private family visit procedures.

Definitions

• Case conference: Formal meeting to discuss an offender's case.
• Correctional Intervention Board: Multidisciplinary team that approves interventions and provides recommendations on complex cases.
• Dangerous Offender: An offender designated by the court under section 753 of the Criminal Code.
• High-profile offender: An offender whose case elicits significant public or media interest.
• Security Reclassification Scale/Security Reclassification Scale for Women: Tool to assess appropriate security level for inmates.