CTF Prairie Director Colin Craig comments on the cost of housing foreign convicts in Canadian jails. As of September 2010, there were 554 non citizens in federal prisons. It costs approximately $114,000 a year to house one convict, so the annual costs for housing non Canadian citizens in federal prisons amounts to $63 million.
Is Canada Off Track?
Canada has problems. You see them at gas station. You see them at the grocery store. You see them on your taxes.
Is anyone listening to you to find out where you think Canada’s off track and what you think we could do to make things better?
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