Another manufactured “scandal”.
He’s not an escape risk.
He’s not a risk to other inmates.
And he’s never going to be released.
There’s no correctional need for him to spend the rest of his life in a more expensive to operate prison.
This is so disturbing. The mob with pitchforks demanding an elected politician interfere with the rehabilitation of a Canadian citizen, merely because he is a celebrity. And the media is going along with it?! What the fuck??
If people cared this fucking much about reforming the prison system, law enforcement, social services, etc etc etc we might actually be able to get ahead. But they don’t actually care, they are just triggered. In a week they will have forgotten this completely and go back to not really caring on a day to day basis that Homolka is playing house with a guy in Quebec, not a trouble in the world.
Interesting paper here from 2018 on costs of incarceration.
Estimated cost per offender, 2016-17
Type of Inmate Annual
Male Minimum $47,370
Male Medium $75,077
Male Maximum $92,740
Female (all levels) $83,861
Segregation (Incremental) +$463,045
Healing Lodge $122,796
Youth $73,632
Regional Treatment Centre1 $139,128
There’s no reason to keep him on maximum security when he’ll be costing us more. Its not like medium security prisons are just plain fences and no security - they both have razor wire, they both have guard towers, etc.
Finally, we don’t want to set the precedent of our Public Safety Minister (Marco Mendicino) stopping or interfering with an independent judicial branch which is following the law. Seems like a big overreach of government to try and do that.
Someone on ODSP gets 13k a year. They haven’t been able to afford an increase since before the pandemic. They haven’t matched cost of living inflation EVER, so in real terms, we are getting less right now than we ever have.
All our money goes to police and prisons, and there is nothing left for programs that reduce crime and keep people healthy. I mean, there IS money left, we would just rather punish poor people.
