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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.