1376...The Bad Guys Win

The bad guys being those behind Bill C 15, the American style anti drug, fill the prisons with poor people laws that have done nothing to prevent crime or the use of drugs in the United States but have given us cool TV shows like MSNBC's Lock-up.

Straight from Straight.com and prisonjustice.ca comes these interesting stats:

The economics of prisons in Canada

> Total correctional-services expenditures in 2005-06: almost $3 billion

> Share spent on custodial services or prisons: 71 percent

> Associated policing and court costs in 2005-06: more than $10 billion

> Number of correctional facilities in Canada in 2005-06: 192

> Annual cost of incarcerating a federal female prisoner in
2004-05: $150,000 to $250,000

> Annual cost of incarcerating a federal male prisoner in 2004-05: $87,665

> Daily cost of incarcerating a provincial prisoner in 2004-05: $141.78

> Daily cost of alternatives such as probation, bail supervision,
and community supervision: $5 to $25

And now it is only going to get worse.

WFDS