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The Correctional services statistics: Interactive dashboard provides an overview of correctional services programs in Canada. The dashboard features statistics on average daily counts, community and custodial admissions and the characteristics of adults and youth in the correctional system.
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Crime and justice statistics provides an overview of the information on the subject of Crime and justice at Statistics Canada.
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- Data on adults in federal and provincial/territorial custody during the COVID-19 pandemic, July to December 2021
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- Adult and youth correctional statistics, 2019/2020
- After an unprecedented decline early in the pandemic, the number of adults in custody rose steadily over the summer and fell again in December 2020
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Adult and youth correctional statistics
Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2020/2021 provides an overview of adult and youth correctional services in Canada in 2020/2021.