Charlottetown: The Police Department

Provincial Correctional Centre Dept: For at least the last decade, Charlottetown police paid the province $4.50 per day for each inmate they escorted to the Provincial Correctional Centre in Sleepy Hollow, north of Charlottetown, according to CBC. The city used to budget $8,000 a year for prisoner meals. Now the police department will have to come up with close to $50,000 a year and p.E.I.'s Justice Department is drastically increasing how much it charges Charlottetown police for each inmate they drop off at the provincial jail, a move that outrages the city. The province has increased the meal fee Charlottetown police must pay per inmate dropped off at the provincial jail by more than $20. Google Street View The fee meant to help feed the city's prisoners is jumping immediately to $25 per inmate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.