Return To Written Question 10-12(3) asked by Mr. Patterson to the Minister of Justice concerning statistics for the women's correctional centre in Fort Smith.
The Territorial Women's Correctional Centre is a minimum security facility with a capacity of 3650 bed days annually. Since the facility opened in August 1991, a full year of data is unavailable for fiscal 1991-92. Utilization for the last twelve months to September 1992 is 2790 bed days or 76.4 per cent.
The operating maintenance cost for the eight-month period of operation starting August 4, 1991 was $797,695 including start- up costs. The permanent and casual person years for the same period were 8.505 and 1.5 respectively.