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Admission of Indigenous adults to provincial/territorial correctional services
| Collection source : | Adult Correctional Services Survey, Youth Custody and Community Services Survey, and the Integrated Correctional Services Survey, Statistics Canada |
| What it is? : | This indicator represents the number and percentage of Indigenous adult admissions to provincial/territorial correctional services. Admissions are counted each time an individual begins or moves to a new type of custody or community supervision. |
| Why is it important? : | A decrease in this indicator could mean a reduction in systemic discrimination and an improvement of the socio-economic factors that contribute to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system. |
| Direction of improvement : | The expected direction of improvement for this indicator is a decrease. |
| Geographic coverage : | Canada |
| Limitation : | An individual is counted more than once in an admissions count if they move from one type of legal status to another or re-enters the correctional system in the same year. For more detailed notes, click on the export to spreadsheet function. |
| Direction : | The value increased from the previous year and is not moving in the defined direction of improvement. |
| Resources : | Adult Correctional Services Survey (ACS), Overview Canadian Correctional Services Survey (CCSS), - Overview Adult custody admissions to correctional services by Indigenous identity in Canada- Data Table Adult admissions to community services by Indigenous identity in Canada- Data Table Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2022/2023-The Daily Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2021/2022-The Daily Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2020/2021-Juristat Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2019/2020-Juristat Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2018/2019- Juristat
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