Inmate Anti-Racism Act (ARA) Consent Statuses
This dataset contains—for each individual incarcerated in a provincial adult correctional institution during a specific calendar year—whether the individual granted consent for the use of their Indigenous identity, ethnic origin, race, and religion data for purposes of the Anti-Racism Act, 2017.
Version 1.1.
2023 data as of November 14, 2024.
2024 data as of May 22, 2025.
The dataset follows the UTF-8 encoding standard.
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Data dictionary
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| year | Text |
Please refer to the detailed data dictionary available in the Supporting Files section on the main page. |
| inmate_ID | Text |
Please refer to the detailed data dictionary available in the Supporting Files section on the main page. |
| indigenous_consent_status | Text |
Please refer to the detailed data dictionary available in the Supporting Files section on the main page. |
| ethnic_origin_consent_status | Text |
Please refer to the detailed data dictionary available in the Supporting Files section on the main page. |
| race_consent_status | Text |
Please refer to the detailed data dictionary available in the Supporting Files section on the main page. |
| religion_consent_status | Text |
Please refer to the detailed data dictionary available in the Supporting Files section on the main page. |
Additional information
- Last updated
- August 29, 2025
- Created
- December 27, 2024
- Format
- text/csv
- File size
- 4.1 MiB
- Licence
- Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Name
- Inmate Anti-Racism Act (ARA) Consent Statuses
- Type
- Data
- Language
- English
- Data made public date
- December 27, 2024
- Data range start
- January 1, 2023
- Data range end
- December 31, 2024
- Validation status
- success
- Validation timestamp
- 2025-08-29T21:08:14.921268
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