Adult Correctional Services (ACS)

Adult supervision program of person, category

Adult supervision program refers to programs, managed by the federal and provincial/territorial correctional system, to supervise persons (aged 18 and over) in custody or in the community. Custodial supervision includes sentenced custody, remand and other temporary detention for persons who are legally required to be at a facility. Community supervision includes probation, conditional sentences and parole.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.