Preamble ramble by Fadsmashers:They just kicked the shit out of the kids at the G20 trap, criminalized marijuana usage, and now they are going to expand on 35 more prisons. Where you think they will get the money for that EH? See where this is going, if not reference something called the United States of America. I agree that some jails are crammed and overflowing (Saskatoon is EXPOSE MATERIAL and not even on this fking list!!!) which is first and foremost owed to the rich, but poor in purpose, existentially wilting sacks of flesh that wave their fat fucking fingers around directing the herd, and jail itself, which is merely a con-school and a place to turn out more excuses for more social workers, more counselors, more cops, more drug pimping psychiatrists, more lawyers, judges, security guards, receptionists, janitors and other bullshit after the fact roles. Our society is a fucking farce, top to bottom. Smile and wave like you don't know these things.
From the TORONTO SUN
Corrections (Canada) plans expansion at 35 prisons
By ROB TRIPP, QMI AGENCY
Last Updated: August 6, 2010 7:39pm
KINGSTON, Ont. - The federal prison service plans to build new cells at 35 penitentiaries across the country to make room for an exploding inmate population.
A total of 60% of the country’s 58 federal prisons will see expansion, according to internal Corrections Canada information obtained by QMI Agency.
A list compiled by senior officials shows that new units will be built at six federal prisons in Ontario, including four in the immediate Kingston, Ont., area — Collins Bay, Frontenac, Pittsburgh and Bath institutions.
All six federal prisons for women will see expansion, according to the information.
Corrections Canada would not provide specific comment on details obtained by the newspaper.
“The Correctional Service of Canada is implementing a multi-faceted accommodation strategy to address the increase of the offender population expected to result from the Truth in Sentencing Act,” agency spokesman Melissa Hart wrote in an e-mailed response to a request for an interview.
Hart wrote the government is providing the money to create 2,700 spaces in the next three years.
It’s estimated that the construction spree will cost roughly $2 billion.
Corrections and the federal government have refused to make public specifics of the unprecedented expansion scheme.
The cancellation of two-for-one pre-trial credit is expected to add roughly 4,000 inmates to the federal inmate population by 2015, requiring construction of 13 penitentiaries, according to a report released in June by the parliamentary budget officer.
The government’s plans have been condemned by criminologists, advocates, and many social agencies as an ideologically driven desire to appear tough on crime, despite decades of research that shows mandatory minimums and longer sentences do little or nothing to improve community safety or deter crime.
“This is basically pouring money down a rat hole,” Craig Jones, the Kingston-based head of the John Howard Society of Canada has said.
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Expansion
A list of 35 federal prisons where new units will be built to accommodate a surging inmate population:
Men’s prisons
(six Ontario facilities listed first)
Frontenac
Fenbrook
Pittsburgh
Bath
Beaver Creek
Collins Bay
Springhill
Westmorland
Atlantic
Corrections (Canada) plans expansion at 35 prisons
By ROB TRIPP, QMI AGENCY
Last Updated: August 6, 2010 7:39pm
KINGSTON, Ont. - The federal prison service plans to build new cells at 35 penitentiaries across the country to make room for an exploding inmate population.
A total of 60% of the country’s 58 federal prisons will see expansion, according to internal Corrections Canada information obtained by QMI Agency.
A list compiled by senior officials shows that new units will be built at six federal prisons in Ontario, including four in the immediate Kingston, Ont., area — Collins Bay, Frontenac, Pittsburgh and Bath institutions.
All six federal prisons for women will see expansion, according to the information.
Corrections Canada would not provide specific comment on details obtained by the newspaper.
“The Correctional Service of Canada is implementing a multi-faceted accommodation strategy to address the increase of the offender population expected to result from the Truth in Sentencing Act,” agency spokesman Melissa Hart wrote in an e-mailed response to a request for an interview.
Hart wrote the government is providing the money to create 2,700 spaces in the next three years.
It’s estimated that the construction spree will cost roughly $2 billion.
Corrections and the federal government have refused to make public specifics of the unprecedented expansion scheme.
The cancellation of two-for-one pre-trial credit is expected to add roughly 4,000 inmates to the federal inmate population by 2015, requiring construction of 13 penitentiaries, according to a report released in June by the parliamentary budget officer.
The government’s plans have been condemned by criminologists, advocates, and many social agencies as an ideologically driven desire to appear tough on crime, despite decades of research that shows mandatory minimums and longer sentences do little or nothing to improve community safety or deter crime.
“This is basically pouring money down a rat hole,” Craig Jones, the Kingston-based head of the John Howard Society of Canada has said.
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Expansion
A list of 35 federal prisons where new units will be built to accommodate a surging inmate population:
Men’s prisons
(six Ontario facilities listed first)
Frontenac
Fenbrook
Pittsburgh
Bath
Beaver Creek
Collins Bay
Springhill
Westmorland
Atlantic
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