New data from the federal government indicates that 40 percent of suspects who appear in criminal court are not convicted, giving Canada one of the lowest prisoner incarceration rates among English-speaking countries.
A Public Safety Canada report released in March titled “2021 Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview,” uses the most recent data available to provide details on the Canadian criminal justice system.
“When ranked from highest to lowest, Canada’s prison population rate was ranked 143 out of 223 countries,” said the report.
Canada jails 104 prisoners per 100,000 population, compared to the United States’ 629 prisoners per 100,000, Australia’s 165 per 100,000, and New Zealand’s 150 per 100,000, the report indicated….