NOC 2021 · 43201 · TEER 3
Correctional service officers
Unit group 43201 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Correctional service officers guard offenders and detainees and maintain order in correctional institutions and other places of detention. Primary workers develop women offender's correctional plan and work with other service officers in the correctional team. They are employed by federal, provincial and municipal governments. Correctional service officers who are supervisors are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- convict guard
- correctional facility guard
- correctional institution guard
- correctional institution head matron
- correctional officer
- correctional officers supervisor
- correctional service officer
- correctional services unit supervisor
- corrections officer
- detention attendant
- detention guard
- escort - correctional services
- head correctional officer
- head matron - correctional service
- institution guard - correctional service
- jail guard
- jailer
- matron - correctional service
- penal institution guard
- penitentiary guard
- primary worker - correctional service
- primary worker/kimisinaw - correctional service
- prison guard
- prison officer
- reformatory guard
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.