Correctional Service Canada Acronyms


A&D Admissions and Discharge (Office)
ADC Assistant Deputy Commissioner
ADD Assistant District Director, Parole Office
ADPR Accelerated Day Parole Release
AFPR Accelerated Full Parole Release
AIMS Allied Indian and Metis Society
AKA "Also Known As"
AM Area Manager
AOD Absent on Duty
APR Accelerated Parole Review
Auto Rev Automatic Parole Revocation
AVP Alternatives To Violence Project (a Non CSC voluntary Anti-Violence Workshop Program)
AWCP Assistant Warden Correctional Programming
AWMS Assistant Warden Management Services
BF Bring Forward
Criminogenic Used to describe an identified treatment/ program need. A factor leading to crime or criminality
C-36 CCRA Correctional and Conditional Release Act
C-45 Amendment to Bill C-36 of the CCRA
C-51 Bill to amend the Criminal Code
C-55 Long Term Offender Supervision Legislation
CA Community Assessment (Report)
CAC Citizen's Advisory Committee
CAMS Corporate Acquisition Management System
CBRF Community Based Residential Facility (non-CSC)
CCC Community Correctional Center (CSC Halfway House)
CCO Chief of Correctional Operations
CCM Chief Case Management or CMS)
CCRA Corrections and Conditional Release Act
CCRR Corrections and Conditional Release Regulations
CD Commissioner's Directives
CDI Case Document Insert (accompanies request for CA or CRMS)
CHRM Chief Human Resource Management
CIR Confidential Information Report or PIR
CMOI Case Management Officer (Institutional) or IPO
CMOC Case Management Officer (Community) or CPO
CMS Case Management Supervisor or Case Management Strategies (you have to guess from the context)
CMT Case Management Team
CO Case Management Officer (old term) or Parole Officer
COII Correctional Officer who is part of CMT or CX
Conc Concurrent. More than one sentence running at the same time.
Cons Consecutive. More than one sentence added up.
CP Correctional Plan or CTP
CPIC Canadian Police Information Computer
CPO Community Parole Officer or CMOC
CPR Criminal Profile Report or CRIMPRO
CRF Community Residential Facility or Contract Halfway House
CRMS or CRMSR Community Reintegration Management Strategy (Report)
CRMS Community Risk Management Strategy Report (Old Term)
CRIMPRO Criminal Profile Report or CPR
CS Correctional Supervisor
CSC Correctional Service of Canada
CTP Correctional Treatment Plan or CP
CX Correctional Officer or COII
DC Deputy Commissioner (Formerly Regional Director General - RDG)
DD District Director (of Parole Office)
Diss Dissociation or Isolation, Segregation, Hole Cell
DO Dangerous Offender
DP Day Parole
DPED Day Parole Eligibility Date
DSO Dangerous Sexual Offender
DTR Document Transmittal Report
E. Fry Elizabeth Fry Society (Women Prisoner's Community Support Agency)
EAP Employee Assistance Program
ECA Environmental Control Area or Dissociation, Isolation, Segregation
ECU Environmental Control Unit or Dissociation, Isolation, Segregation
ELC Escape Lawful Custody
ER Earned Remission or "good time" sentence reduction bonus system (Old Term)
ETA Escorted Temporary Absence
FP Full Parole
FPED Full Parole Eligibility Date
FPS Finger Print System - the RCMP Criminal Record Finger Print Sheet
Gratuitous A term used to describe violence beyond what is needed to achieve an end
GED General Equivalency Diploma (High School Diploma)
GSIR General Statistical Information on Recidivism
Interventions Also referred to as "Treatment" given to prisoners
IERT Institutional Emergency Response Team
IMM Institutional Management Meeting
IOD Injury On Duty
IPO Institutional Parole Officer or CMOI
IPSO Institutional (or Internal) Preventative Security Office. This is an old term. See ISO
IRC Information Retrieval Center in Toronto. Or IR Unit
IS Indeterminate Sentence. A sentence with no end
ISO Institutional (or Internal) Security Office. Replaces the old term IPSO.
JHS John Howard Society. A Community Based Prisoner Support Organization
Life-Line A community support group that addresses the needs of long term prisoners
Link A Community Based group that addresses the needs of long term prisoners
MS Mandatory Release or SR
NA Narcotics Anonymous - a Community group that assists with addictions
NPB National Parole Board
NTC Northern Treatment Centre - An addiction-based provincial prison
OIA Offender Intake Assessment
OMS Offender Management System - Federal Computer System
Persistent Describes a prisoner with three or more violent convictions including use of a weapon during a robbery
PA Put Away
PC Protective Custody
PD Preventative Detention
PDP Personal Development Plan
PER Performance Evaluation Report
PED Parole Eligibility Date
PFV Private Family Visit (or Trailer Visit. A three day visit with family, loved ones)
PIR Protected Information Report or CIR
PPA Personal Portable Alarm
PPR Penitentiary Placement Report
PRD Parole Review Date
PRH Parole Review Hearing
PSH Post Suspension Hearing
PSR Progress Summary Report or RAP
RAP Reintegration Assessment Profile or Risk Assessment Profile (RAP) which replaced PSR
RB Reintegration Board
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RFS Reasons For Sentence
RHQ Regional Headquarters
RMC Regional Management Center
RO Reintegration Officer (Possible change in title for the Parole Officer)
RPC Regional Personnel Committee
RPC Regional Psychiatric Center
RRC Regional Reception Center
Schedule List of Indictable Offences appended to the CCRA
SA Sentence Administrator
Seg Segregation, Disassociation, ECU, Isolation
SHU Special Handling Unit or Super Maximum Unit
SIR Security Intelligence Report. ISO information
Sit Rep Situation Report
SOTP Sex Offender Treatment Program
SR Statutory Release
TA Temporary Absence
TD Temporary Detention
UAL Unlawfully at Large
UB Unit Board (or Work Board)
UM Unit Manager (For living unit, range, cell block)
UTA Unescorted Temporary Absence
V&C Visits and Correspondence (Office)
VIS Victim Impact Statement
WED Warrant Expiry Date