Corrections

Custody/ Institutional Services

To provide safe and secure custody facilities for territorial and federal offenders, the Corrections Service operates:

  • institutional services for adult male offenders at the North Slave Correctional Centre (Yellowknife), the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre (Hay River), and Fort Smith Correctional Complex;
     
  • institutional services for adult female offenders at the Fort Smith Correctional Complex;
     
  • bush camps for low-risk adult offenders through independent contractors; and
     
  • two facilities for youth: North Slave Young Offender Facility (Yellowknife) for male youth and Arctic Tern Young Offender Facility (Inuvik) for female youth.

 

This page last updated: July 2009