A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Key priorities
The Office of the Correctional Investigator’s top priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:
- Improve service standards to ensure more prompt resolution of incarcerated person’s complaints through efficient investigative processes;
- Implement team-based inspection model in compliance with international standards as a tool to oversee compliance with human rights obligations;
- Develop criteria for identifying systemic and thematic investigations; and
- Pursue work on workplace inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA), and continue to be responsive to the gender and diversity of its clients by accelerating its Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) efforts.
Highlights
In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the Office of the Correctional Investigator is $7,980,004 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 51. For complete information on the Office of the Correctional Investigator’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the Office of the Correctional Investigator’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
Core responsibility 1: Independent oversight of federal corrections
Planned spending: $5,772,004
Planned human resources: 38
Departmental results:
- A safe, lawful and humane federal correctional practice
The Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) conducts regular visits to and inspections of federal penitentiaries, meets with Correctional Service Canada staff and federally sentenced individuals, and investigates and resolves issues and complaints of prisoners, individually and collectively. The OCI also reviews use of force incidents in federal prisons, as well as deaths in custody and other serious incidents. OCI’s interventions help to ensure federal sentences are managed in compliance with domestic and international human rights standards providing for safe, humane, and lawful custody. Finally, the OCI gives focus and priority to identifying, investigating and reporting on issues of national or systemic significance.
More information about the independent oversight of federal corrections can be found in the full plan.
