Inmates who have committed violent acts while in prison are often segregated and housed in supermaximum-security facilities. At some point, there may be a decision to remove such inmates from high-security status for humane, correctional, and financial reasons. This article proposes a transitional strategy that uses a maximum-security, step-down, treatment-oriented facility within which security requirements and treatment needs of the transitioning inmate are met. An evaluation was conducted of such a program in Canada's Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC), which is a maximum-security institution within the Correctional Service of Canada. The RPC is an accredited inpatient mental health facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. There are four other similar facilities that provide assessment and specialized treatment programs for offenders with major mental illnesses, sexual offenders, violent offenders, and female offenders. For the current study, 31 male Federal offenders transferred from a supermaximum-security facility to the RPC between 1990 and 1998 were monitored. Offenders were considered to have successfully reintegrated into the general inmate population if they were not transferred from a lower security institution back to the supermaximum-security facility during the follow-up period (mean follow-up time of 21.3 months). Twenty-two of the 31 offenders were transferred from the RPC to a lower security institution. During the follow-up period, there were significant reductions in the number and severity of institutional offense rates, suggesting the effectiveness of the transitional strategy. 1 table, 1 figure, 19 references, and appended clinical guidelines for a transition program