OTTAWA — Taxpayers are funding a federal prison system gone mad: Canada now employs 28% more staff than it has actual inmates locked up.
Internal Correctional Service of Canada figures obtained and reported on by Blacklock’s Reporter show roughly 19,024 bureaucrats and guards babysitting just 14,837 prisoners — a ratio so ridiculous the agency’s own report warns “the current portfolio is not sustainable.”
That’s over one extra employee for every four inmates, blowing through $4 billion a year while the system proposes a few token job cuts. At roughly $150,000 per prisoner annually, Canadians are paying premium rates for what looks more like a government jobs program than a corrections system.
For years watchdogs have slammed CSC for its bloated payroll and cushy staffing levels that dwarf many international peers. Now the numbers confirm it: there are literally more people on the prison payroll than behind the bars.
This isn’t rehabilitation. It’s bureaucratic empire-building at its most shameless — with your money.
