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Table 5
Operating expenditures of the adult correctional system, by jurisdiction, 2018/2019

Table 5
Operating expenditures of the adult correctional system, by jurisdiction, 2018/2019
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/ Federal internal services, Custody, Community supervision, National and provincial parole boards, Federal correctional interventions, Total , Percentage change in total from 2017/2018, Average daily inmate cost in 2018/2019 and Per capita cost in 2018/2019 , calculated using thousand of dollars , percent and dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Jurisdiction	Administration and central services/ Federal internal services	Custody	Community supervision	National and provincial parole boards	Federal correctional interventions	Total^{Table 5 Note 1}	Percentage change in total from 2017/2018^{Table 5 Note 2}	Average daily inmate cost in 2018/2019^{Table 5 Note 3}	Per capita cost in 2018/2019^{Table 5 Note 4}
		Custody	Community supervision	National and provincial parole boards	Federal correctional interventions	Total^{Table 5 Note 1}	Percentage change in total from 2017/2018^{Table 5 Note 2}	Average daily inmate cost in 2018/2019^{Table 5 Note 3}	Per capita cost in 2018/2019^{Table 5 Note 4}
	thousand of dollars						percent	dollars
Prince Edward Island	534	8,924	1,466	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	10,925	0	240	71
Nova Scotia	5,354	48,227	8,346	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	61,928	2	282	65
New Brunswick	807	33,748	4,053	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	38,608	-3	197	50
Quebec	13,081	474,668	83,188	5,214	Note ...: not applicable	576,151	5	290	69
Ontario	42,715	821,912	125,578	3,939	Note ...: not applicable	994,144	9	302	69
Manitoba	2,165	225,140	23,994	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	251,299	13	293	186
Saskatchewan	8,259	125,188	26,428	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	159,875	6	178	137
Alberta	8,790	206,621	40,594	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	256,005	-1	157	60
British Columbia	17,930	218,071	58,426	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	294,428	-9	247	59
Yukon	278	11,038	3,142	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	14,458	5	451	356
Northwest Territories	1,987	28,161	4,738	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	34,886	0	423	776
Total–Provinces and territories^{Table 5 Note 5}	101,901	2,201,698	379,954	9,153	Note ...: not applicable	2,692,706	4	259	74
Federal^{Table 5 Note 6}	310,506	1,458,808	159,691	44,054	432,522	2,405,581	-6	318	65
Total–All jurisdictions	Note ...: not applicable	3,660,506	539,645	53,207	Note ...: not applicable	5,098,287	-1	281	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable Note 1 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 1 referrer Note 2 The percentage change is calculated in constant dollars according to the all-items Consumer Price Index for 2017 and 2018 (Statistics Canada table 18-10-0005). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 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 3 referrer Note 4 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, Centre for Demography. 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 4 referrer Note 5 Total excludes Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut due to unavailability of expenditure data. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Correctional Service of Canada (federal) expenditures for 2018/2019 include CORCAN (a special operating agency of Correction Services of Canada). Return to note 6 referrer Note: Additional data are available on Statistics Canada table 35-10-0013. Data for Nunavut are not available for 2018/2019. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Adult Correctional Services Survey and Adult Corrections Key Indicator Report.

Date modified:: 2020-12-21