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CORCAN is a government agency operated by the Correctional Service of Canada. CORCAN is responsible for operating prison industries in a large number of Canadian federal correctional institutions and offers transitional employment services for offenders who are released into the community.

History

While CORCAN was granted Special Operating Agency status in 1992(http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/pub/respaper/indust02.pdf), prison industry has a long history in Canada, dating from 1835, when six inmates at Kingston Penitentiary were employed as stonecutters to produce the blocks eventually used in the perimeter walls for the institution.

Operating principles

Offenders have often been employed in food preparation, prison laundry, maintenance, and other tasks related to institutional operations. CORCAN employment differs from these sorts of tasks in several ways. First, CORCAN operates its prison industries in a businesslike manner, attempting to replicate real-world working conditions, selling its products and services at market rates, and working under the expectation that it will break even each year. Second, CORCAN operations are intended to teach employability skills as well as vocational skills.

Institutional operations

CORCAN operates

Prison farms

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