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Projections that the Canadian federal correctional system would be facing a long-term overcrowding crisis and be forced into housing offenders in shared cells (“double-bunking”) had been substantially reversed in an earlier study.

An Act respecting corrections and the conditional release and detention of offenders and to establish the office of Correctional Investigator.

This dataset provides information on the percentage of offenders in adult correctional facilities by ethnicity and admission status (e.g., remand or sentenced custody). Percentage calculations exclude records where the ethnic background of the offender is unknown. The data is sourced from the...

New arrivals in adult and youth facilities are counted as intakes only (e.g. from non‐custody status to custody, transfer from another jurisdiction, or conditional sentence to custody). An individual could have more than one new arrival at a correctional facility during a fiscal year. New...

This dataset provides information on the percentage of offenders in adult correctional facilities by gender and admission status (e.g., remand or sentenced custody). Percentage calculations exclude records where the gender of the offender is unknown. The data is sourced from the Nova Scotia...

New arrivals in adult and youth facilities are counted as intakes only (e.g. from non‐custody status to custody, transfer from another jurisdiction, or conditional sentence to custody). An individual could have more than one new arrival at a correctional facility during a fiscal year. New...

New arrivals in adult and youth facilities are counted as intakes only (e.g. from non‐custody status to custody, transfer from another jurisdiction, or conditional sentence to custody). An individual could have more than one new arrival at a correctional facility during a fiscal year. New...