Interesting paper here from 2018 on costs of incarceration.
Estimated cost per offender, 2016-17
Type of Inmate Annual
Male Minimum $47,370
Male Medium $75,077
Male Maximum $92,740
Female (all levels) $83,861
Segregation (Incremental) +$463,045
Healing Lodge $122,796
Youth $73,632
Regional Treatment Centre1 $139,128
There’s no reason to keep him on maximum security when he’ll be costing us more. Its not like medium security prisons are just plain fences and no security - they both have razor wire, they both have guard towers, etc.
Finally, we don’t want to set the precedent of our Public Safety Minister (Marco Mendicino) stopping or interfering with an independent judicial branch which is following the law. Seems like a big overreach of government to try and do that.
Someone on ODSP gets 13k a year. They haven’t been able to afford an increase since before the pandemic. They haven’t matched cost of living inflation EVER, so in real terms, we are getting less right now than we ever have.
All our money goes to police and prisons, and there is nothing left for programs that reduce crime and keep people healthy. I mean, there IS money left, we would just rather punish poor people.
Interesting paper here from 2018 on costs of incarceration.
Estimated cost per offender, 2016-17
Type of Inmate Annual
Male Minimum $47,370
Male Medium $75,077
Male Maximum $92,740
Female (all levels) $83,861
Segregation (Incremental) +$463,045
Healing Lodge $122,796
Youth $73,632
Regional Treatment Centre1 $139,128
There’s no reason to keep him on maximum security when he’ll be costing us more. Its not like medium security prisons are just plain fences and no security - they both have razor wire, they both have guard towers, etc.
Finally, we don’t want to set the precedent of our Public Safety Minister (Marco Mendicino) stopping or interfering with an independent judicial branch which is following the law. Seems like a big overreach of government to try and do that.
Someone on ODSP gets 13k a year. They haven’t been able to afford an increase since before the pandemic. They haven’t matched cost of living inflation EVER, so in real terms, we are getting less right now than we ever have.
All our money goes to police and prisons, and there is nothing left for programs that reduce crime and keep people healthy. I mean, there IS money left, we would just rather punish poor people.