12% Of Prisoners Mentally Ill

More than a tenth of federal prisoners are diagnosed with “serious mental illness,” says the Correctional Service of Canada. The agency in a report to Parliament said it now spends more than $70 million a year on mental health programs in penitentiaries: “12% meet the criteria.”

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