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When speaking to your loved one, reading documentation for CSC or viewing our blogs, you will run into terminology which may be unfamiliar to you.
The following glossary will help you understand common terms:
1 Bar = Correctional staff (CX 1)
2 Bar = Correctional Staff (CX2)
4 Bar = Keeper, Unit Manager, Supervisors
514 Form = Cell Effects Sheet
ACP = Assistant Commissioner, Policy
ATIP = Access to information
AW= Acting Warden
AWCP = Acting Warden Correctional Programs
AWI = Acting Warden Information
AWMS = Acting Warden Management Systems
CAC = Citizen Advisory Committee
CCRA = Corrections & Conditions Release Act
CCRR = Corrections & Conditions Release Regulations
CD = Commissioners Directives
CP = Correctional Plan
CPU = Correctional Plan Update
CO = Correctional Officer or Guard
CON = Prison/Jail Inmate
CSC = Corrections Service Canada
DR = Director, Research
EXCOM = Executive Committee
IPSO, SIO = Security Intelligence Officer
HOLE = Segregation, Administrative Segregation
NEC = National Executive Committee
NHQ = National Headquarters
PFV = Private Family Visits
PO = Parole Officer
RDC = Regional Deputy Commissioner
RHQ = Regional Headquarters
JACK = Telephone
VI = Visit
VRB = Visiting Review Board