The Correctional Service of Canada is the only agency that supervises offenders in the community.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. It supervises only federal offenders
• D. It supervises jail inmates

Answer: (B)

The key idea is that community supervision is split by jurisdiction in Canada. The Correctional Service of Canada oversees federal offenders and those released into the community under federal parole or conditional release. Provincial and territorial correctional services supervise offenders under provincial sentences and those on probation, conditional sentences, or other community-based dispositions within their jurisdictions. So CSC is not the only agency involved in community supervision — provincial agencies also perform that role. The statement that CSC supervises jail inmates isn’t about community supervision, since jail inmates are in custody, not in the community.