Non-Fatal Overdose Incidents in Canadian Federal Custody, FY 2024-2025

Correctional Service of Canada data summarizes non-fatal overdose incidents within federal institutions for fiscal years 2024 to 2025. The dataset is part of ongoing monitoring efforts and was last updated in June 2026. It is published under an open government license on the Open Canada platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in non-fatal overdose incidents based on the described fiscal year monitoring.
• Assess institutional safety and health outcomes based on the reported overdose incidents.
• Model risk factors for overdose within correctional facilities based on the incident summary data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Correctional Service of Canada.
• Covers a defined two-year fiscal period (2024-2025).
• Released under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license.

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 temporal and institutional bias inherent to its source.

Provenance

Source

Correctional Service of Canada

Collection Method

Summary from ongoing monitoring efforts.

Time Range

Fiscal year 2024 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06 02 14:32:01.978634; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canadian federal institutions