Corrections and Conditional Release Act

Marginal note:Function

• 167 (1) It is the function of the Correctional Investigator to conduct investigations into the problems of offenders related to decisions, recommendations, acts or omissions of the Commissioner or any person under the control and management of, or performing services for or on behalf of, the Commissioner that affect offenders either individually or as a group.

• Marginal note:Restrictions

  (2) In performing the function referred to in subsection (1), the Correctional Investigator may not investigate

  • (a) any decision, recommendation, act or omission of

    • (i) the Parole Board of Canada in the exercise of its exclusive jurisdiction under this Act, or

    • (ii) any provincial parole board in the exercise of its exclusive jurisdiction;

  • (b) any problem of an offender related to the offender’s confinement in a provincial correctional facility, whether or not the confinement is pursuant to an agreement between the federal government and the government of the province in which the provincial correctional facility is located; and

  • (c) any decision, recommendation, act or omission of an official of a province supervising, pursuant to an agreement between the federal government and the government of the province, an offender on temporary absence, parole, statutory release subject to supervision or mandatory supervision where the matter has been, is being or is going to be investigated by an ombudsman of that province.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(b), the Correctional Investigator may, in any province that has not appointed a provincial parole board, investigate the problems of offenders confined in provincial correctional facilities in that province related to the preparation of cases of parole by any person under the control and management of, or performing services for or on behalf of, the Commissioner.