Canada

Capital city — Ottawa

Country population
36,503,097
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2017
/ World Prison Brief / Statistics Canada
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
113
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2017
/ ICPR / Statistics Canada
Type of government
Constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.92
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Public Safety
Total number of prisoners
41,145
i
2017
/ ICPR - Statistics Canada
Prison density
102 %
i
2015
/ ICPR - Statistics Canada
Total number of prison facilities
230
i
2017
An NPM has been established
No
Incarcerated minors
2.4 %
i
2017
/ ICPR - Statistics Canada
Percentage of untried prisoners
36.2 %
i
2017
/ ICPR - Statistics Canada
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1976

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For more information

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada, Statistics Adult Correctional Services in Canada, 2014-2015.

John Howard (Society of Ontario), Solitary confinement, 2017.

Independent Review of Ontario Corrections, Segregation in Ontario, March 2017.

Ombudsman Ontario, Out of Oversight, Out of Mind, April 2017.

Office of the Correctional Investigator, Preventive Isolation and the Federal Correctional System, 28 May 2015.

Office of the Correctional Investigator, Triennial Review of Suicides of Federal Inmates (2011-2014), 10 September 2014.