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S.M. 1998, c. 47

THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT


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Table of Contents

PART 1
INTERPRETATION, PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES
1(1) Definitions
(2) Supervision
2(1) Purpose
(2) General principles
3(1) Application
(2) Where Act doesn't apply
(3) Where Act continues to apply
PART 2
GENERAL CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
4 Designation of commissioner
5 Delegation by commissioner or facility head
6 Agreements
7(1) Staff criteria
(2) Contractors and their employees
8(1) Direction and management of correctional officers
(2) Determination of supervision etc.
9 Status of correctional officers as peace officers
10(1) Training courses
(2) Fees for courses
11 Obtaining information
12(1) Assessment procedures
(2) Offender plans
(3) Notification to offenders
13(1) Establishing programs
(2) Correctional activities
14 Approved programs for conditional sentences
15 Fees and charges for services etc.
16(1) Tests of inmates for intoxicants
(2) Tests of offenders for intoxicants
17(1) Establishment of committees
(2) Designation of volunteers
(3) Duties of volunteers
(4) No remuneration for committees or volunteers
18 Gifts and donations
19(1) Investigations and inquiries
(2) Inspections and reviews
(3) Manner of investigations etc.
(4) Cooperation of staff etc.
20 Failure to comply with supervision order
21 Youth workers
22 Jurisdiction of National Parole Board
PART 3
CUSTODIAL SERVICES
23(1) Designation of temporary custodial facility
(2) Termination of designation
24 Duties of facility heads
25(1) Rules for custodial facilities
(2) Non-compliance with regulations or rules
26(1) Designation of non-smoking areas
(2) Notices for non-smoking areas
27(1) Collective trust accounts
(2) Inmates' accounts
(3) Disbursements from inmates' accounts
28 Facility trust account
29 Determination of facility for serving sentence
30(1) Change in custody
(2) Acceptance of other prisoners
31 Times for admissions
32 Refusal of admission because of medical needs
33(1) Surrender of property
(2) Surrendered property
34 Institutional clothing
35(1) Notification to inmate
(2) Inmates not serving sentences
36 Live-in program for infants
37 Health examinations
38 Removal to other facilities
39 Inmate allowances
40 Wages and salaries of inmates
41(1) Restrictions within custodial facility
(2) Lock-down of custodial facility
42(1) Monitoring communications of inmates
(2) Use of remote monitoring systems
43(1) Search
(2) Seizure
(3) Regulations respecting search or seizure
44 Use of force etc.
45 Temporary absence of adults
46 Temporary release of young person
47 Release of inmates
48 Religious practice
49(1) "Visitor" defined
(2) Permission for visits
(3) Procedures for visits
(4) Terms and conditions of visits
(5) Refusal of visits
(6) Suspension of access to facility
(7) M.L.A.s and judges
50 Unauthorized person in custodial facilities
51 Support personnel
52 Grievance of inmate
53(1) Appeals by inmates
(2) Initiation of appeal
(3) Procedure on appeal
54(1) Definitions
(2) Referral of early release to commissioner
(3) Action by commissioner
(4) Adjudication
(5) List of adjudicators
PART 4
GENERAL
55(1) Interfering with operation of custodial facility
(2) Obstructing investigations etc.
56(1) Offence of providing information
(2) Where information may be provided
(3) Disclosure on release etc.
(4) Disclosure where offender at large
(5) Disclosure respecting safety etc.
(6) Information in confidence
(7) Conflict with Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
57 Application of employment Acts
58(1) No liability
(2) Liability in case of negligence
59(1) Regulations
(2) Differentiation in regulations and rules
PART 5
REPEAL, C.C.S.M. REFERENCE, COMING INTO FORCE
60 Repeal
61 C.C.S.M. reference
62 Coming into force