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Table 7
Operating expenditures of the adult correctional system, by jurisdiction, 2016/2017

Table 7
Operating expenditures of the adult correctional system, by jurisdiction, 2016/2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Operating expenditures of the adult correctional system. The information is grouped by Jurisdiction (appearing as row headers), Administration and central services, Custody, Community supervision, National and Provincial Parole Boards, Other federal expenditures, Total, Change from 2015/2016, Average daily inmate cost in 2016/2017 and Per capita cost in 2016/2017, calculated using thousand of dollars , percent and dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Jurisdiction	Administration and central services	Custody	Community supervision	National and Provincial Parole Boards	Other federal expenditures^{Table 7 Note 1}	Total^{Table 7 Note 2}	Change from 2015/2016^{Table 7 Note 3}	Average daily inmate cost in 2016/2017^{Table 7 Note 4}	Per capita cost in 2016/2017^{Table 7 Note 5}
	Administration and central services	Custody	Community supervision	National and Provincial Parole Boards	Other federal expenditures^{Table 7 Note 1}	Total^{Table 7 Note 2}	Change from 2015/2016^{Table 7 Note 3}	Average daily inmate cost in 2016/2017^{Table 7 Note 4}	Per capita cost in 2016/2017^{Table 7 Note 5}
	thousands of dollars						percent	dollars
Newfoundland and Labrador	229	31,777	4,333	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	36,339	-4	253	69
Prince Edward Island	440	8,595	1,393	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	10,428	1	297	70
Nova Scotia	4,809	43,671	8,381	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	56,861	-3	245	60
New Brunswick	1,456	32,908	4,242	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	38,606	2	201	51
Quebec	10,920	406,600	76,126	4,769	Note ...: not applicable	498,415	2	220	60
Ontario	45,410	659,818	116,249	2,263	Note ...: not applicable	823,739	-1	235	59
Manitoba	3,887	183,065	22,138	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	209,090	1	204	159
Saskatchewan	5,825	114,956	22,394	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	143,176	8	166	124
Alberta	8,753	201,172	41,431	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	251,356	4	144	59
British Columbia	13,389	226,599	55,719	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	295,707	10	227	62
Yukon	553	11,147	2,299	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	13,999	2	366	373
Northwest Territories	1,192	25,600	4,034	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	30,826	-6	382	693
Nunavut	4,101	29,813	3,437	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	Note ...: not applicable	37,351	-2	594	1007
Total—provinces and territories	100,965	1,975,723	362,176	7,032	Note ...: not applicable	2,455,894	2	213	67
Federal^{Table 7 Note 6}	Note ...: not applicable	1,377,473	146,511	46,800	685,063	2,255,848	0	288	62
Total—all jurisdictions	Note ...: not applicable	3,353,196	508,687	53,832	Note ...: not applicable	4,701,741	1	240	130
.. not available for a specific reference period ... not applicable Note 1 Other federal expenditures include "Internal Services" ($290,678,805) and "Correctional Interventions" ($394,384,156). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Due to rounding, the total could be slightly different from the sum of expenditures by sector. For federal expenditures, total includes unknown operating expenditure types. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 The percentage change is calculated in constant dollars according to the all-items Consumer Price Index for 2015 and 2016 (CANSIM table 326-0021). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Average daily inmate cost is derived based on the institutional operating costs (custody) and the actual-in count (which represents persons held in custody under sentence, remand or who are otherwise legally required to be in custody and who are present at the time the count is taken) provided via the Corrections Key Indicator Report for Adults. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Per capita cost is the total operating expenditures on correctional services, divided by the total population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Total operating expenditures exclude capital expenditures. Methods of calculating expenditures may differ from one jurisdiction to another. Costs may also vary according to number of offenders admitted and the length of sentences. Therefore, caution should be exercised when comparing per capita costs from one jurisdiction to another. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Correctional Service of Canada (Federal) expenditures for 2016/2017 include CORCAN (a special operating agency of CSC). Return to note 6 referrer Note: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 251-0018). Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Adult Correctional Services Survey, Integrated Correctional Services Survey and Canadian Correctional Services Survey, 2016/2017.

Date modified:: 2018-06-19