Adult Correctional Services (ACS)

Operating expenditure of correctional services, value

Operating expenditure refers to salaries and wages, professional services, and other operating expenditures associated with running an enterprise.

Correctional services refers to a program with two main goals:

1. To ensure community safety by detaining or otherwise managing those who may have harmed other people's interests.

2. To help offenders safely and successfully reintegrate into the community.

These programs consist of custodial services (e.g. sentenced custody and remand) and community supervision services (e.g. probation and parole).