Facts and Figures

Aboriginal community development in corrections

Aboriginal Offender Statistics

Introduction:

Aboriginal peoples represent 2.8% of the Canadian population, but account for 18% of the federally incarcerated population.

Overview:

Female Offender Population 2001-12-30

0ffender Race	National Total	Atlantic Region	Quebec Region	Ontario Region	Prairie Region	Pacific Region
Total	948	90	171	303	297	87
Non-Aboriginal	734	79	161	276	151	67
Aboriginal	182	11	4	17	136	14

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Male Offender Population 2001-12-30

0ffender Race	National Total	Atlantic Region	Quebec Region	Ontario Region	Prairie Region	Pacific Region
Total	21,756	2,081	5,686	5,771	5,160	3,057
Non-Aboriginal	18,273	1,951	5,396	5,252	3,222	2,451
Aboriginal	3,232	117	232	427	1,874	582

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Inuit Offender Population 2001-12-30

0ffender Gender	National Total	Atlantic Region	Quebec Region	Ontario Region	Prairie Region	Pacific Region
Female	4	2	0	0	2	0
Male	128	17	18	53	36	4

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Métis Offender Population 2001-12-30

0ffender Gender	National Total	Atlantic Region	Quebec Region	Ontario Region	Prairie Region	Pacific Region
Female	50	0	1	2	43	4
Male	885	9	115	35	569	157

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North American Offender Population 2001-12-30

0ffender Gender	National Total	Atlantic Region	Quebec Region	Ontario Region	Prairie Region	Pacific Region
Female	128	9	3	15	91	10
Male	2,219	91	99	339	1,269	421

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Breakdown of Provincial Aboriginal Offenders

Province	Total # of Offenders	% of total Population that is of Aboriginal Descent	Total # of Provincial Offenders that are of Aboriginal Descent
Newfoundland	1,199	6%	72
Prince Edward Island	803	NIL	NIL
Nova Scotia	1,964	5%	98
New Brunswick	2,273	5%	114
Quebec	21,735	2%	435
Ontario	32,815	10%	328
Manitoba	1,393	59%	822
Saskatchewan	3,850	76%	2,926
Alberta	15,491	38%	5,887
British Columbia	9,628	20%	1,926
Yukon	300	NIL	NIL
Northwest Territories	1,594	49%	781
Total incarcerated population	93,045		13,389

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Breakdown of Federal Aboriginal Offenders

Gender	Atlantic	Quebec	Ontario	Prairies	Pacific	National
Aboriginal Male Offenders:	104	213	410	1,944	572	3,243
Aboriginal Female Offenders:	7	4	17	137	9	174
Total	111	217	427	2,081	581	3,417

Aboriginal people account for a disproportionate number of offenders in the federal correctional system.

Future:

CSC is currently developing a new National Strategy that will further expand and focus its efforts to ensuring an Aboriginal-specific correctional process is in place throughout an Aboriginal offender's sentence.