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  1. Average daily inmate costs adult corrections in Canada| Statista

    Jan 23, 2025 · The daily inmate expenditures for adult federal, provincial, and territorial correctional services in Canada saw no significant changes in 2022 in comparison to the previous year 2021 and...

  2. Operating expenditures for adult correctional services - Statistics Canada

    Nov 19, 2025 · In 2021/2022, the average daily inmate cost for total Provinces and Territories was revised for 2017/2018 to 2020/2021 due to a small update in total actual-in counts, therefore figures …

  3. Financial facts on Canadian prisons - The John Howard Society of Canada

    Aug 23, 2018 · The average amount spent per student per year in Canada’s prisons was reported by the Correctional Service as $2,900 (stated in a Correctional Service 2015 report)

  4. The operational costs per inmate-year associated with incarceration vary between provinces, with federal costs being higher than costs in most provinces, but lower than those in the territories, see …

  5. 3. Criminal justice system costsCosts of crime in Canada, 2014

    In 2014, the daily cost to incarcerate a male inmate in federal facilities was $312 and the cost for a female inmate was $589 (Public Safety Canada, 2017). The higher cost for a female inmate was …

  6. Behind bars: the cost of keeping criminals locked up

    Mar 4, 2024 · The most recent Correctional Service of Canada report pegs the daily cost of maintaining inmates at about $345 per day (2019-20 statistics), or on average of just more than $126,000 per …

  7. From Stable Prisons to Skyrocketing Budgets: What's Really Happening …

    Aug 17, 2025 · Housing and handling Canada’s criminal offenders in federal detention facilities is expensive. In 2023, Correction Service of Canada (CSC) spent more than all but four federal …

  8. Cost of Incarceration - Elizabeth Fry Society of Northern Alberta

    In 2016/2016, it costs an average of $116, 000 to maintain an offender in a Correctional Services Centre Institution, whereas the cost to maintain an individual in the community was $31,000.

  9. Update on Costs of Incarceration - pbo-dpb.ca

    Mar 22, 2018 · The average institution-specific expenditure associated with each inmate were $114,587 /year or $314/day per offender and 96% of those cost are attributable to custody.

  10. Variable (s) - Surveys and statistical programs - -12022/2023

    Average daily inmate cost refers to the cost per day of keeping a person in custody. It is calculated by dividing annual institutional operating expenditures by the total days stayed by all inmates held in …