[Buddha-l] Canada cancels non-Christian prison chaplaincies

[Christopher Fynn]

On 09/10/2012, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> The Conservative government of Canada has reached the conclusion that
> providing chaplaincy services to non-Christians is not a good use of
> taxpayers' money. The story reports that there were close to 23,000 inmates
> in federal custody in 2011. Broken down by religion:
>
>    • 37.5% are Catholic; 44% of the Canadian population are Catholic
>    • 19.5% are Protestant; 29% over total population are Protestant
>    • 4.5% are Muslim; 2% of total population are Muslim.
>    • 4% First Nations spirituality.
>    • 2% are Buddhist; 1% of the total population are Buddhist.
>    • fewer than 1% are Jewish; 1% of the total population are Jewish.
>    • fewer than 1% are Sikh; fewer than 1% of the total population
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8fdh2vv

By these figures, the percentage of Buddhists in Canadian jails is
twice that as their representation in the population as a whole. Does
this mean that you are twice as likely to go to jail in Canada if you
are a Buddhist?