Madelaine Wilson’s Reviews > Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community > Status Update

$4k/month per operations of a single Ontario prison bed
Which is 2x the cost of a shelter bed
4-5x the cost of a supported housing unit

“If we as a society are not willing to pay for treatment for people who want it, but decide that we are willing to pay for their longterm detention, then we are making it very clear that the only thing we really want to do is to punish the vulnerable for being vulnerable.”