Schizophrenia and Prison Inmates

Question

A researcher at McMaster is working on a project about the "Economic cost of Schizophrenia in Canada". Based on the literature review about 5% of inmates have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The researcher needs data on the total inmate days for all the prisoners and average cost per inmate day for the fiscal year of 2003/4 (or most current year data is available) to calculate the cost of incarceration for persons with schizophrenia in Canada. Does anyone know where to find this data?

Answer

From what I am aware of we don't collect inmate data. You will have to contact the research branch at Correctional Services Canada, they should be able to give you the data for federal inmates. If your researcher is also interested in provincial data you
will have to contact each provinical ministry for that data.
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca