In Canada, the criminal legal system is divided into federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions. Provincial/territorial correctional facilities hold people who have been sentenced to less than two years in custody and people being held on remand (waiting trial or sentencing). Federal Correctional Facilities, which are the responsibility of Correctional Service of Canada—is concerned with people who have been sentenced to two years or more in custody.^[1]

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Provincial/territorial jurisdiction includes: remand for those with a custody sentence of less than two years; community sentences such as fines, community service, or probation; including pre-trial supervision, community and custody sentences, and Extrajudicial Sanctions Programs. Youth criminal legal facilities and sentencing are also provincial/territorial but are usually governed by the ministry responsible for child and youth services, rather than the body responsible for adult corrections.

Though immigration detention is facilitated by the Canada Border Services Agency, immigration detainees may also be kept in provincial/territorial facilities because either the federal Immigration Holding Centres (IHCs) are full, there is no IHC in their region, or the detainee's file has a link to criminality.^[2]

Corrections in Alberta are administered by the Correctional Services of the Ministry of Justice.^[3]

• Calgary Correctional Centre
• Calgary Remand Centre
• Edmonton Remand Centre — largest in Canada
• Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre
• Lethbridge Correctional Centre
• Medicine Hat Remand Centre
• Peace River Correctional Centre
• Red Deer Remand Centre
• Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre (3 camps)
  • Metis Nation Wilderness Camp
  • Alsike Minimum Security Camp (closed April 2009)
  • Fort McMurray Minimum Security Camp (closed)
• Kainai Community Correctional Centre

Corrections in British Columbia are administered by B.C. Corrections under the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. As of April 2021^[update], BC has 10 correctional centres throughout the province.^[4]

Correctional services in Manitoba are administered by Manitoba Corrections, under the province's Department of Justice.^[6]

Correctional services in New Brunswick are administered by the Community & Correctional Services of Department of Justice and Public Safety.^[9]

Correctional services in Newfoundland and Labrador are administered by the Corrections and Community Services branch of the Department of Justice and Public Safety.^[11]

Corrections in Nova Scotia are administered by the Correctional Services of the province's Department of Justice.^[13]

Corrections in the Northwest Territories are administered by the Corrections Service of the territory's Department of Justice.^[21]

Corrections in Nunavut are administered by Nunavut Ministry of Justice.

Adult corrections in Ontario are administered by the Ministry of the Solicitor General, whereas youth detention centres for secure detention of young people ages 12–18 are administered by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services.

Corrections in Prince Edward Island are administered by the Community and Correctional Services Division of the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety and Attorney General.^{[citation needed]}

• Prince County Correctional Centre — Summerside
• Prince Edward Island Youth Centre — Summerside
• Provincial Correctional Centre — Charlottetown

Corrections in Quebec are administered by the Direction générale des services correctionnels of the province's Ministry of Public Security (French: Ministère de la Sécurité publique).

Corrections in Saskatchewan are administered by the Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing.^{[citation needed]}

• Saskatoon Correctional Centre — Saskatoon
• Regina Correctional Centre — Regina
• Prince Albert Correctional Centre — Prince Albert
• Pine Grove Correctional Centre
• Paul Dojack Youth Centre — Regina
• Kilburn Hall — Saskatoon

Corrections in Yukon are administered by the Community and Correctional Services Branch of the Ministry of Justice.

• Whitehorse Correctional Centre — a multi-level 190-inmate facility, for adult males and females, completed in February 2012 and built next to an existing prison building (c. 1967)^[26]
• Justice Wellness Centre — Whitehorse^{[citation needed]}

• List of prisons in Canada
• Incarceration in Canada