Table 3
Admissions to adult correctional services, by type of supervision and jurisdiction, 2017/2018


Table 3
Admissions to adult correctional services, by type of supervision and jurisdiction, 2017/2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Admissions to adult correctional services. The information is grouped by Jurisdiction (appearing as row headers), Custody, Community supervision, Total correctional services, Sentenced custody , Remand, Other temporary custody , Total, Total percent change from 2016/2017, Probation, Conditional sentences and Other, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Jurisdiction Custody Community supervision Total correctional services
Sentenced custody Remand Other temporary custodyTable 3 Note 1 Total Total percent change from 2016/2017 Probation Conditional sentences OtherTable 3 Note 2 Total Total percent change from 2016/2017 Total Total percent change from 2016/2017
number percent number percent number percent
Newfoundland and Labrador 938 891 102 1,931 -6 1,367 387 0 1,754 3 3,685 -2
Prince Edward Island 481 196 3 680 1 752 19 147 918 3 1,598 2
Nova Scotia 1,586 3,034 192 4,812 1 2,598 647 1,180 4,425 2 9,237 2
New Brunswick 2,464 2,350 676 5,490 5 1,524 486 173 2,183 -7 7,673 1
Quebec 12,682 29,140 3,558 45,380 4 10,388 1,822 14,318 26,528 6 71,908 5
Ontario 20,729 43,646 4,815 69,190 -7 26,896 3,462 494 30,852 -4 100,042 -6
Manitoba 7,333 14,781 7,677 29,791 3 7,987 689 1,341 10,017 -2 39,808 2
Saskatchewan 4,660 8,374 270 13,304 -1 5,115 1,571 3,896 10,582 5 23,886 2
Alberta 16,716 23,914 1,863 42,493 -12 8,548 1,000 21,621 31,169 2 73,662 -7
British Columbia 10,534 14,089 1,353 25,976 -6 8,656 1,898 18,587 29,141 -5 55,117 -6
Yukon 162 308 6 476 -6 271 77 701 1,049 -16 1,525 -13
Northwest Territories 356 717 0 1,073 5 339 54 203 596 13 1,669 7
Nunavut 415 567 0 982 10 135 50 715 900 0 1,882 5
Total—Provinces and territories 79,056 142,007 20,515 241,578 -4 74,576 12,162 63,376 150,114 0 391,692 -3
FederalTable 3 Note 3 5,099 Note ...: not applicable 2,246 7,345 1 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 7,125 7,125 -5 14,470 -2
Total—All jurisdictions 84,155 142,007 22,761 248,923 -4 74,576 12,162 70,501 157,239 -1 406,162 -3
... not applicable
Note 1

Other temporary detention includes persons who are being held in provincial/territorial correctional institutions for lock-ups, parole violations or suspensions, immigration holds, and those who are temporarily detained without warrants of any type.

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Note 2

Other community supervision for the provinces and territories includes, for example, community service orders, provincial parole (Quebec and Ontario), fine option programs, bail supervision and restitution orders. Due to differences among jurisdictional programs, inter-jurisdictional comparisons of the data should be made with caution.

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Note 3

Federal sentenced custody includes warrant of committal admissions. Revocations of conditional release are included under other temporary custody. Federal community supervision includes provincial/territorial (except Quebec and Ontario) and federal offenders on day parole, full parole or statutory release.

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Note: Additional data are available on Statistics Canada tables 35-10-0014 and 35-10-0022. An admission is counted each time a person begins any type of custody or community supervision program. The same person can be included several times in the admissions count where the individual moves from one type of legal status to another or re-enters the system in the same year.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Adult Correctional Services Survey, Integrated Correctional Services Survey and Canadian Correctional Services Survey, 2017/2018.
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