Custody Centre Inmate Count - demographics

This B.C. Corrections has ten adult custody centres. This extract provides the number of clients in custody in provincial custody centres on the first day of each month by centre, gender, ethnicity, marital status, age group, and month for the fiscal years 2008-09 to 2023-24. This data cannot be aggregated on a month by month bases; rather, it is a point in time snapshot giving a count of the provincial adult corrections population on the first of each month.

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Last Updated	April 17, 2026, 22:04 (UTC)
Created	April 17, 2026, 22:04 (UTC)
contact_email	Buyun.Xu@gov.bc.ca
contact_person	{"en": "B.C Corrections", "fr": "B.C Corrections"}
criticality_level	[]
data_dictionary	["society"]
geographic_scope	[]
open_canada_collection	federated
open_canada_date_published	2021-11-09 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords	{"en": ["correctional centre", "count", "custody", "inmate", "jail"], "fr-t-en": ["centre correctionnel", "compter", "garde", "détenu", "prison"]}
open_canada_subject	["society_and_culture"]
sensitivity_level	unrestricted
title_fr
update_frequency	P1Y