Government of British Columbia provides data on adult custody inmate releases by fiscal year, centre, ethnicity, legal hold status, most serious offence, and related flags. The dataset covers fiscal years 2008-09 to 2023-24. It is available on the open_canada platform.
Use Cases
- Analyze inmate release trends based on fiscal year coverage from 2008-09 to 2023-24
- Study demographic patterns based on ethnicity data
- Associate release outcomes with legal hold status categories
- Correlate release data with offence severity based on the most serious offence (MSO) field
- Filter and analyze releases based on flags for spousal abuse or sex offender status
Strengths
- Data spans 16 fiscal years from 2008-09 to 2023-24
- Includes multiple breakdowns by centre, ethnicity, legal hold status, and offence
- Published by the Government of British Columbia
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to open_canada
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- Fiscal years 2008-09 to 2023-24
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:31:30.524653; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada