Community Corrections (Probation)
Probation is a court imposed, community-based sentence designed for offenders who require supervision, control and counselling to develop their potential as law abiding members of the community.
Community Corrections is responsible for the following:
- Providing pre-sentence investigative services to assist the court in determining the most appropriate sentence in a specific case;
- Administering a spectrum of community-based sentencing alternatives through which the courts may satisfy a range of sentencing objectives, including:
- Probation Supervision which provides services, surveillance and control of offenders in the community subject to specific and enforceable court-imposed conditions;
- Community Service Order Programs in which offenders are ordered by the court via a probation order to perform a specified number of non-paid hours of work for a non-commercial community-based agency;
- Compensation Enforcement or monetary payment by an offender for actual loss or damage to property as a result of an offence;
- Electronic Monitoring Program - monitoring low risk offenders who are permitted to be released from prison with strict conditions regarding time away from home and participation in correctional intervention programs; and
- Conditional Sentence Order Enforcement and supervision through which offenders are permitted to serve their term of imprisonment in the community and, usually, are confined to their homes under electronic monitoring.
Community Corrections has offices in the following locations:
- St. John's
- Port Saunders
- Corner Brook
- Nain
- Gander
- Grand Falls-Windsor
- Happy Valley - Goose Bay
- Clarenville
- Springdale
- Wabush
- Harbour Grace
- Marystown
- Stephenville
- Port aux Basques