-- MONTREAL -- The Canadian government has been spending tens of thousands of dollars each year to provide condoms to inmates in federal prisons.
According to documents obtained under Access to Information laws, during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 fiscal years, the 50 federal prisons in Canada have spent nearly $120,000 to allow the 14,000 inmates to have protected sex.
Nearly half of the money is devoted to prisons in Ontario.
