Winnipeg Free Press By: Rosanna Hempel LOCAL criminology and restorative justice experts are lauding Manitoba’s decrease in incarceration rates as a “positive” step. LOCAL criminology and restorative justice experts are lauding Manitoba’s decrease in incarceration rates as a "positive" step. While Manitoba maintains one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, rates for both adults and youth have gone down by 12 and 15 per cent, respectively, from 2017-18 to 2018-19, suggests a Statistics Canada report released Monday. It also highlights drops of 20 and 34 per cent, respectively, in the average daily counts of adults and youth involved in the province’s correctional services since 2014-15, which coincides with a downward trend countrywide spanning the last four years.