Healthcare in Canadian Prisons According to a 2008 Census, there are approximately 31,612,897 people occupying the country Canada. Keeping this in mind, for every 100,000 people, 131 of these citizens are incarcerated. This means there are roughly 31 to 32,000 prisoners of this country. There are 192 correctional facilities in Canada. Taken from an article by Clifford Krauss, a writer for the Bath Journal reporting news directly from the Bath Institution in Ontario, Canada: It is a medium-security federal prison, and its inmates are allowed to keep the keys to their cells. Many have their own kitchens, and they move freely from the gym to the cabinet-making shop. Drug addicts can clean their needles with bleach, and condoms are readily available. Now the institution has opened a tattoo parlor, In the year of 2004, a total of $81.5 million dollars of taxpayer money was used to keep 12,500 inmates healthy (Harris, 2005). Inmates are provided with free access to prescription drugs, medical treatments and a controversial methadone program for heroin addicts. A lot of the increases in costs are due to a rising need of opiate-addiction drugs. many believe that the costs are indeed justified because cons live very hard lives. Aging is seen to be a very important factor. Aging is brought on much earlier because inmates suffer from the cumulative effects of incarceration, substance abuse, poor diet and unhealthy lifestyles. Women comprise less than 10 percent of the total Canadian prison population. In the federal system, they comprise five percent. While they represent only a small fraction of the total prison population, studies have consistently shown that rates of HIV and HCV among women prisoners are much higher than among male prisoners. This adds additional urgency to the need to implement comprehensive HIV/AIDS services for incarcerated women, and to develop those services specifically to meet the needs of women. Female physicians are not consistently...