Canadian Jails vs Nica Jails

Submitted by nicoya on 25 August, 2006 - 20:02.

I ran across this article that puzzled me. I never realized it costs so much to keep an inmate in Canada.

In Ontario, it costs the provincial government approximately $1,600 a year to supervise an inmate under house arrest, double that if the inmate is being monitored electronically. That same inmate in a provincial jail would cost about $52,000 a year.

The Conservative plan to increase mandatory minimum sentences by as much as six years will also add to significant increases in the cost of administering the federal criminal justice system. It costs Corrections Canada $110,223 to keep a male inmate in a maximum-security institution for a year ($150,867 for a woman). Medium- and minimum-security inmates cost more than $70,000 a year.

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I wonder why it cost $40,000

Submitted by Pompano Tom on 26 August, 2006 - 06:36.

more to keep a woman......I guess it's for clothes, shoes, accessories, and make up.

you get a volume discount for men . . .

Submitted by arlington on 26 August, 2006 - 08:12.

they have a much larger prison population than women

the PRC model

Submitted by Nika Pilot on 26 August, 2006 - 06:20.

When I lived in the People's Republic of China, I learned that murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and certain officials convicted of corruption crimes face execution with a single bullet in the back of the head. The bill for the cost of the bullet is sent to the family of the convicted criminal for payment.

como todo buen piloto . . . mujeriego y borracho.