The Correctional Service of Canada is working to better prepare offenders for release and to provide greater support once they are in the community. These efforts are paying off in higher rates of safe return to the community and lower rates of criminal recidivism. Conditional release programs (day parole, full parole, or statutory release) are based on the premise that a period of supervised transition from prison to the community enhances public safety and the rehabilitation of offenders. In 1998-99, 93.9 percent of offenders on day parole did not recidivate, 86.8 percent on full parole did not recidivate, and 86.0 percent on statutory release did not recidivate. The report contains a section describing crime reduction through effective treatment in education, employment, substance abuse, personal/emotional problems, sex offenses, and violent offenses. For 1996-97, the total number of prisoners for Canada was 129 per 100,000 total population. After peaking at 5,100 in 1993-94, admissions to Federal penitentiaries declined to 4,412 in 1997-98. Notes, figures, tables