According to Correctional Services Canada:
There are 52
federally managed penitentiaries and 17 community correctional centres in Canada.
On a typical day there are:
12,600 offenders in the institutions;
8,500 offenders supervised
in the community
by 71 parole officers.
There are 175
halfway houses across the country.
Federal offenders represent
5% of the total number of persons
sentenced to custody in Canada
and 6% of offenders in the community.
Canada spends $1.5 billion annually on the Federal correctional system.
The annual cost of maintaining an offender ranges from $108,277 for maximum security to $41,583 in a community correctional centre with an overall average of $62,115.
One in three inmates is serving a sentence of more than ten years.
After serving a sentence the offender is deemed rehabilitated, to have paid his or her debt to society, and released back into the community.
If so many are, or have been, deemed 'socially unacceptable', what's wrong with society?
