 Tories announce $155.5M prison expansion The federal government will spend $155.5 million to expand prisons in Ontario and Quebec, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Thursday.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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"Statistics/Smatistics" he says. Schools and communities could really use that $155.5 million.
"Statistics/Smatistics" he says. Schools and communities could really use that $155.5 million.
In Toronto here there is a certain amount of concern with crime around. People at work talk about it. It's a hot button. Or at least was until the price tag was announced. lol
$155 million is a drop in the fiscal ocean when you think that $1,000,000,000 was wasted on e-health in Ontario. How many schools and communities could have used that BILLION of dollars.
Funny how people pick up on one thing and ignore other, more obvious issues.
From the CBC story, they are adding to existing prisons due to overcrowding. In case anybody hasn�t noticed, our population is growing.
$155 million is a drop in the fiscal ocean when you think that $1,000,000,000 was wasted on e-health in Ontario. How many schools and communities could have used that BILLION of dollars.
Funny how people pick up on one thing and ignore other, more obvious issues.
I'm with EB here. It's not much, and there is an overcrowding problem. You'd think lefties would be all over prisoners' rights and for some spening to ease the inmates' overcrowding.
A multibillion dollar spree on building new prisons is another matter though.
They stepped back from that one as that was an ideology issue (cracking down on weed) that didn't play well to the electorate.
Sounds reasonable to me. I mean, I don't have much respect for the Tories and their anti-science agenda (in this case dismissing evidence that the crime rate is falling). But regardless, the prisons are already overcrowded and investment at this time seems prudent.
But is the crime rate really falling or have we become so apathetic that we don't bother reporting anything due to witnessing daily sentencing that seems to repunish the victim and reward the criminal?
Sounds reasonable to me. I mean, I don't have much respect for the Tories and their anti-science agenda (in this case dismissing evidence that the crime rate is falling). But regardless, the prisons are already overcrowded and investment at this time seems prudent.
But is the crime rate really falling or have we become so apathetic that we don't bother reporting anything due to witnessing daily sentencing that seems to repunish the victim and reward the criminal?
I think I saw something recently that said that violent crime really is dropping but petty crime is dropping mostly due to decreased reporting and that the actual victimization rate is holding steady.
A multibillion dollar spree on building new prisons is another matter though.
I don't think it's any better if they announce it a little bit at a time either.
New legislation limiting the credit given to prisoners for time served in custody before and during their trials will cost taxpayers $1 billion to implement and billions more to maintain, the parliamentary budget officer said Tuesday.
The construction of new correctional facilities alone will cost about $1.8 billion over five years, parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page said in a report quantifying the implications of the Truth in Sentencing Act.
A further $618 million will be needed annually for capital appropriations and operations and maintenance costs.
Something does need to be done about overcrowding, but Truth in Sentencing, and S-10 will make it impossible to do that without a multibillion dollar spree on building new prisons.