Criminal justice delivery encompasses three primary components: policing; courts (judges, prosecutors, legal aid, and youth justice); and corrections (including parole). According to the John Howard Society of Canada, the total (federal, provincial and municipal) public spending on criminal justice in Canada per year is about $20 billion. About 70% of this spending is provincial/municipal. The total amounts to about $550 in taxes per person in Canada per year.Of this, nearly $5 billion is for jails and prisons, of which about 55% is provincial and 45% federal. The rest is for courts and police.