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“In a new report, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page says the government’s recent legislation to restrict pre-sentence jail credit will extend the average prisoner’s sentence by about 159 days. It will also add 4,000 more inmates to the federal prison system, according to the report…
More prisoners, longer stays and the resulting increase in operations and maintenance costs will add $1 billion a year to the total expenditures on correction in Canada, the report says.
In the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the budget across federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions is $4.4 billion. By fiscal year 2015-2016, that total will rise to $9.5 billion.”
I have a solution that will lower costs AND reduce crime: Bring back caning! Unless somebody is a career criminal or violent offender who needs to be kept off the streets for 5 or more years, caning is a much better alternative to locking people up. It is far cheaper than feeding and sheltering a prisoner, and is as much or more of a deterrent than jail time. It is also much more satisfying for the criminal’s victims.
Just imagine if this guy had been caught in a bait car. I’ll bet he’d think twice before stealing again!
It would be nice to be a Mexican living in Mexico. I can’t imagine what it would be like to live in a place where the government actually acts in the majority’s best interests. From the L.A. Times blog:
“Tens of thousands of Central Americans enter Mexico illegally every year, most with the hope of continuing on to the United States. But many stay in Mexico, at least for a time, where they may be beaten, killed, raped, kidnapped by criminal gangs, put in jail or shaken down by corrupt Mexican officials…
The Amnesty report says that up to 60% of female migrants suffer some form of sexual abuse; migrants are routinely forced to pay bribes; detention centers are woefully overcrowded, and victims are too terrorized to make formal complaints, rendering them “invisible.””
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/04/mexicos-treatment-of-immigrants-slammed.html
To summarize: Mexico dumps its poorest (numbering in the tens of millions) on the United States. The US government then taxes its citizenry to pay for, among other things:
-K-12 education for children of the illegals.
-Emergency room care (it is against the law to refuse care in the US).
-Processing and imprisonment of illegals who commit crimes.
And President Felipe Calderon comes to the US every year to lecture the US government about “racism” and to demand that they repeal their already unenforced immigration laws. He does all of this while turning a blind eye to (if not secretly encouraging) the terrible treatment of illegal immigrants on Mexico’s southern border.
