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| Law Would Drive Prison Costs Higher |
| By metronews.ca |
| Published: 06/23/2010 |
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OTTAWA - The Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda is also tough on taxpayers, with the cost of running prisons potentially set to more than double, says Parliament's spending watchdog. Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page says the Truth in Sentencing Act could raise total prison costs to $9.5 billion a year in 2015-2016 from $4.4 billion this year. It could also require the construction of as many as a dozen new prisons. With that kind of price tag, Page isn't sure taxpayers can afford it. "It's a lot of money in a period of time we're generating deficits," he said Tuesday after releasing his report into the costs of the Act. Read More. |
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