Something wrong with justice system
Editor:
I find it quite amusing that on page 17 of last week’s issue (March 31) John Reilly desires to see smart justice rather than tough justice.
Then, on page 20 of the same issue, we have a conditional discharge for two men pleading guilty to a brutal assault. Then on page 27 of the same issue, we see an absolute discharge for an abandoned (illegal) campfire in a national park.
If this is an example of smart justice, you can rest assured I will be voting Conservative.
Pat Sullivan,
Canmore
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Gentlemen, while I respect your right to your opinions, I'd really like you to do a bit more homework※
Cheers, Carol Picard
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Post On: April 9, 2011
Posted by User #: Carol Picard
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If only they were "fixed" in prison, or even before they got there, but the slashing to the social programs kind of pre-empts that. I don't think anyone at 6 years old says "I'm going to be a criminal when I grow up!" But when you starve the education system and the kinds of supports that build healthy families (definitely the first things chopped under conservative or right-wing governments) you're going to get more social problems. So you need to build more jails. And if you build more jails, you need to find some way to fill them. Did you know the US spends more on jails than it does on education? That the state of California in the last decade laid off 10,000 teachers but hired 10,000 more prison guards? That the US is now the number one country in the world, ahead of even China, for its rate of incarceration (1 in 100 adults, five times more than England and nine times more than Germany). Wonder why they've got a problem? And why is the Harper government planning to walk down the same path as the US in building more prisons and imposing mandatory minimum sentencing when that system is bankrupting the US?. And how would we all feel about mandatory minimum jail time for such things as possession of marijuana? Just asking※
Gentlemen, while I respect your right to your opinions, I'd really like you to do a bit more homework※
Cheers, Carol Picard
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Post On: April 8, 2011
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Like Mr. Sullivan, I noted the irony in the Liberal candidate's comments on the justice system and the sentences that had been handed to the offenders in the court room. Thanks to Mr. Sullivan for bringing this to our collective attention. Sure does help to make the decision who NOT to vote for, that much easier.
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Post On: April 7, 2011
Posted by User #: Alvin Shier
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Pat I sincerely hope others have the sense you do, and see through this. The Liberals have been soft of crime for decades. I have no idea why, some people especially those who have the power to do something about it, don't put offenders away and fix them until they're fit to satnd in line with you and I at the supermarket checkout. Jason Kenny has done a great job of getting illegal immigrants out of here and the justice minister is making great strides to remove those who make our streets, towns and cities unsafe. I agree and I'm sure the majority of western folks agree as well that there is nothing smart at all about letting those who circumvent the law of the land go free and laugh about in our faces. Thanks for your letter I hope everyone reads it and remembers when they vote. Alvin Shier