What is the difference between the provincial correctional system and the federal correctional system?
When offenders receive a term of incarceration of two years or less, they serve their sentence in a provincial/ territorial correctional centre. Offenders who receive a sentence of two years or more serve their sentence in a federal penitentiary. WCC is a territorial correctional centre. Offenders who are sentenced in the Yukon to more than two years, generally go to Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford, BC. Matsqui is a clearing house for the federal system where offenders are rated, oriented, and then referred to other BC penitentiaries where they will serve their sentence. Offenders who receive a term of probation or a conditional sentence also fall under the jurisdiction of the territorial correctional system. All offenders who receive either day or full parole are the responsibility of the federal correctional system.
