Custody services address sentenced and remanded offenders. Remanded offenders have not been found guilty of an offence so participation in programs and services is not mandatory.

However, the case management policy does apply to sentenced offenders and requires each offender to participate in a re-integration plan that focuses on their activities that lead to crime or criminality and applies intervention strategies that are effective.

Average daily inmate cost in Saskatchewan

The average daily cost to incarcerate an inmate includes the administration and maintenance costs to operate the Adult Institutional Division of the Ministry.  Staff salaries, their travel, inmate meals and building operating costs are included.

These figures do not include accommodation costs and collective agreement employee benefits such as supplemental health benefits, dental plan benefits, employer contributions to pension plans, etc.

Average daily combined sentenced and remand count

This table includes inmates serving intermittent sentences, straight provincial sentences, a fine default warrant and a federal sentence while waiting transfer to a federal penitentiary.  It also includes an inmate being held on remand, parole suspension or on immigration hold.

An offender who has less than two years to be served from the latest date of sentencing shall serve that sentence of incarceration in a provincial correctional centre.  The different types of sentences are sorted into three categories: 

1)      Pure provincial sentences
2)      Intermittent sentences, and
3)      Fine default sentences.  

In Saskatchewan, offenders serving provincial sentences earn remission and are eligible for parole through the Federal Parole Board.  

Sentenced offenders are also eligible for release under provincial supervision for the last 60 days of their sentence.  This program, known as Extended Authorized Absence [EAAP] functions as a period of re-integration to bridge the offender back into the community.  EAAP is administered by the Correctional Centre and acts like a short parole.  Offenders who violate the conditions of their EAAP are returned to the Correctional Centre on program violation where they are subject to the loss of remission and must serve the remainder of their sentence.  

Average daily sentenced count  

Average Sentenced Count – reports all inmates serving a sentence and includes dual status offenders who have both a sentence and a remand order running concurrently. 

Average daily sentenced count by ethnicity  

The average daily count by ethnicity for offender serving custodial sentences (does not include remand and other holds) during fiscal 2010 – 2011 was: 

Average daily sentenced count by sex  

  New admissions to provincial sentence:

New admissions to intermittent sentence:

New admissions to pure fine default sentence