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According to Table C14, 23% of Canada's prison (not jail) inmates are lifers. That is 3,011 people. Of them 95.7% are guilty of murder.
It costs $151K per maximum security inmate per year for upkeep according to Table B3, even though most of this money returns as correctional officers salary.
Most inmates are kept in humane conditions. Other countries have much worse conditions -- in Iran most of those guilty of murder are executed, in US South they are kept in cells which can heat up to 120 Farenheit in summers. Most US prisons have no conditioning.
I support the death penalty only for some few cases of treason, and if the Canadians are spending $150K per year then they are doing it wrong.
Which would not shock me in the least.