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| Criminals should earn parole.; But the stupid lefties don't buy it. | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 4 2009, 02:07 AM (19 Views) | |
| Beancounter | Oct 4 2009, 02:07 AM Post #1 |
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Criminals should earn their parole By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN The next time you hear a professor, prisoners' rights advocate, defence lawyer, opposition MP, or journalist tell you Canada's justice system is too tough on criminals, remember this. Suppose someone is convicted of a violent crime such as sexual assault or manslaughter and the judge sentences him to nine years in prison. As Sun Media legal affairs columnist Alan Shanoff has explained it, here's what a "nine-year" sentence typically means in Canada. It means unsupervised temporary absences after 18 months, day parole in a halfway house after two-and-a-half years, full parole after three years and, at most, statutory release after six. Statutory release automatically reduces most prison sentences by a third, save for murderers and those designated as dangerous offenders. In addition, if the accused was denied bail, judges usually take two days off the sentence upon conviction for every day spent in custody before trial. (A bill before the Senate would reduce this to one day in most cases, with a maximum of 1.5.) Two years ago, a federal task force report titled "A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety" recommended the federal government end statutory release, which has a failure rate of 40%, and replace it with "earned parole." "Today, an offender working hard at rehabilitation is often treated no differently than an offender who is seeking only to continue his criminal lifestyle," the report concluded. Many violent criminals "have no interest in rehabilitation and are content to 'wait out' the system, until they reach statutory release ... The panel believes that any arbitrary release that is not made based on rehabilitation is counter-productive and, when aggravated by shorter sentences, reduces public safety." It also recommended increased spending on rehabilitation and new prison construction to alleviate dangerous overcrowding in outdated facilities. Despite this, all the usual suspects have attacked earned parole ever since as an assault on prisoners' rights. This is absurd. Earned parole would be a first step in restoring Canadians' faith in their justice system. PM Stephen Harper should implement it, although realistically, it would take a Conservative majority government to do so. (Comment: Another EXCELLENT column by Lorrie Goldstein. Everybody with an ounce of sense knows crime is a BIG problem in Canada. Do you know ANY country that allows prisoners to VOTE? How stupid can you get? Of course they will vote for a left wing party that is soft on crime.. How about the STUPIDITY of letting pedophiles out? In Toronto there are over a thousand, just waiting to jump on the next innocent child. What about the stupid Canadian custom of "concurrent sentences: which just amounts to " a 2 for 1 special" on crime? Not to mention the "2 for 1" for time already served. I shake my head, at least I have been smart enough NEVER to vote for a left wing party, and NEVER will). |
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| xray | Oct 4 2009, 02:34 PM Post #2 |
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Yes, I great article from Goldstein. He is right on the money.... as is Beancounter. 
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| ReallyOrnery | Oct 7 2009, 02:22 AM Post #3 |
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Hi, Y'all ! As a medically-retired sergeant from the California Department of Corrections, it is my belief that a convicted inmate should serve every day that he is sentenced to serve; no parole, no time off for "good behavior" and no conjugal visits. However, once that prison time is served, the inmate should have all his rights restored, including his 2nd Amendment Right, and he should be free to persue his life's goals, so long as those objectives do not violate the law and/or the rights and privileges of other citizens. If they can't do the time, they shouldn't do the crime -- period. RO |
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