When is the last time a politician, specifically a public safety minister, a finance minister, a solicitor general, attorney general, Prime Minister or Premier put forth “we need to build more jails”.
Because we do need to build more jails, with better living facilities, inmate “client” services, quality of life improvements for inmates, and safety and modernization equipment for CO’s.
If the police want something, they usually get it eventually. Hospitals? Oh here please accept this cheque. But Corrections? Oh no, we can’t do that.
And we really should, because that way judges can stop discounting sentences due to holding conditions. You might actually see crime go down by having criminals serve their sentences. And modern tech and better across the board facilities and services can lower the cost per day/inmate. But no, not in Canada. Not anywhere actually except Scandinavia.