Our prisons are overcrowded. Criminals run rampant
In Canada, unregistered possession of weapons is against the law. So, they invented the Gun Registry to keep track of those who legally owned weapons. Good idea, that! Now we know which weapons the Criminals do NOT have.
Get real! The criminals have the power, not the citizens and especially not our Police Forces. And now, Prisoners and their self-admitted “allies” are actively campaigning to abolish the prison system! Thats right! There are “Abolitionists” who believe that incarcerating prisoners is bad for them, and does nothing for the victims! See the link at top (in green) for these idiots!
We have to take the power back from the criminals.
But under Canadian Law, we can't. Criminals are protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There is NO WAY that we will ever be able to; after all, isn't that what Prisons are for? To Segregate, Punish and Rehabilitate Criminals?
Not one of these will happen with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms sticking out of their back pockets.
When I was a little lad, I was taught in school and my parents that when you went to jail, you lose many rights because you are undergoing punishment against Society, and therefore lose many of the same priveledges and conveniences as citizens. Like Santa Claus, this has become just a dream.
Just recently – I realized that ALL prisoners in Canada enjoy the same full benefits and priveledges as other citizens of Canada, and therefore, they are not adequately “punished”, nor rehabilitated.
Being in a Canadian prison is nothing more than semi-isolation from society, but with all the comforts, communications, voting, healthcare and legal resources available to everyone else in Canada.
I'm talking about all the Rights and Freedoms granted to all Canadian Citizens will no longer apply to prisoners while incarcerated. This also means that they will no longer have the right to vote, do not have the right to refuse to work or refuse to undergo Therapies necessary for rehabilitation from criminal habits to being a healthy asset to Canadian Society.
Continued Refusal to undergo therapy and job training will only lengthen the terms of their sentences. This would also take away a lot of their “creature comforts”, such as cable TV, Weight Rooms, Communications with outside agencies (crime gangs/syndicates/hit-men/etc), fancy meals and so on. As well, we can now “force” the prisoners to actively work to pay for their upkeep, rehabilitation and repay their victims in a monetary manner!
Not only would this make incarceration a much more stronger deterrent, but it would also serve to better rehabilitate those incarcerated as they would have more a more intense experience with the rehabilitation methods, re-training, Social Skill adjustments and so on.
Perhaps, after incarceration, while on Parole, this can also be a “Citizenship Application Trial” period, where the probationer must also undergo Citizenship training, language training (if unable to speak English or French!) and must pass the standard Citizenship test to regain his Citizenship.
If the probationer was born in Canada, and failed, the probationer must work and live under a “Visa” system until they can regain their Citizenship. If the probationer was an immigrant, and failed the Citizenship test, they will be refused entry into Canada and sent to their home country. Pleading Humanitarian aid will not work as they are convicts in our country and are no longer welcome. Simple, eh?
I know that we cannot trample upon our prisoners willy-nilly - International Law will still exist to protect prisoners from “over-compensating”, but perhaps this is one manner to take back control of our prisons, eh? Perhaps this method of incarceration can become so effective that the length of prison sentences can then be reduced, saving the government and taxpayers millions of dollars each year! Re-offences will go down, and the quality of Canadian Life will go up as well!
Break a law under the “Criminal Code of Canada” heading, and whoosh, off you go to never-never land - you have just temporarily voided your citizenship until your restitution to society has been established/furnished. Petty “non-criminal” crimes can continue to be prosecuted and punishment meted out as normal, but with this “next step up” manner of punishment hanging over criminals heads, the line between petty theft and aggravated theft is a slim one.
- Effectively combat criminals on an advantageous footing, be it in the courts or on the street.
- Effectively prosecute criminals without dragging court cases for so long that under the charter, they will be set free – guilty or not!
- Effectively administer sufficiently long prison sentences.
- Effectively incarcerate criminals from Society and from other Criminal elements still out on our streets.
- Effectively rehabilitate criminals while incarcerated
- Effectively control our prisoner population
- Effectively “punish” convicted prisoners
So, I think the solution for this problem is quite simple!
"Suspend Citizenship” while incarcerated. Then all prisoners will have to go through the very same process any immigrant will need to go through to regain Canadian Citizenship.
AND if they fail, then is deportation of The Crown's Prisoners to Australia still a thing? Just kidding!
[2022 popping in here for a second. I think at that time, I was imagining some sort of "collar" or other "wearable" item, including clothing, that can be utilized to restrain, inhibit, paralize or apply controlled levels of pain to force prisoners to behave, a first step towards reintegration into polite society.]
Perhaps, after incarceration, while on Parole, this can also be a “Citizenship Application Trial” period, where the probationer must also undergo Citizenship training, language training (if unable to speak English or French and vice-versa!) and must pass the standard Citizenship test to regain their Citizenship.
If the probationer was born in Canada, and failed, the probationer must work and live under a “Visa” system until they can regain their Citizenship. If the probationer was an immigrant, and failed the Citizenship test, they will be refused entry into Canada and sent to their home country. Pleading Humanitarian aid will not work as they are convicts in our country and are no longer welcome. Simple, eh?
I know that we cannot trample upon our prisoners willy-nilly - International Law will still exist to protect prisoners from “over-compensating”, but perhaps this is one manner to take back control of our prisons, eh? Perhaps this method of incarceration can become so effective that the length of prison sentences can then be reduced, saving the government and taxpayers millions of dollars each year! Re-offences will go down, and the quality of Canadian Life will go up as well!
Break a law under the “Criminal Code of Canada” heading, and whoosh, off you go to never-never land - you have just temporarily voided your citizenship until your restitution to society has been established/furnished. Petty “non-criminal” crimes can continue to be prosecuted and punishment meted out as normal, but with this “next step up” manner of punishment hanging over criminals heads, the line between petty theft and aggravated theft is a slim one.
I know its not perfect, but in a world with no answers, perhaps this is one answer that can be considered?
2022 here again. After re-reading my ranting, I was chuckling because I wanted to insert somewhere in the middle "...and don't even ask me my opinion about making ALL prisons above the Arctic Circle, preferably on a rock in the middle of the Tundra, so that escaping would be an interesting concept."
I was thinking that Chinook Helicopters would be the ONLY contact with the outside world, the prison a totally contained institution. If the prisoners break something, they will go without until the next scheduled delivery - if the part can be fitted in with all the other food supplies, fuel, new prisoners and miscellany repair parts from previous "attempts" at retribution.
Of course, Prison Staff live in a separate Condo-style establishment, connected via tunnel to the prison itself. As there is absolutely NO contact between prisoners and staff, a Black Market is impossible to get started. Anyone makes trouble, either the guards will induce "control" measures utilizing technical means, or if an inmate wants to jimmy or break anything, it will not take long for the inmates to realize that if a heater is busted, someone is going to get very, very cold, and the others will have to get very, very close to each other.
Self-regulating.
Of course, to make it work, there must be some manner of funding this sort of institution.
Just hold another lottery! Put prisoners names on the tickets, and instead of numbers, players pick 10 prisoners at random. Out of a pool of what? 40,000 currently? Perhaps make the tickets a "pick 5", as the odds are way out there, eh?
So, my friends, ends another look back at what got my blood boiling 13 years ago. Meh, I still hold the same feelings, just not as vocal as I used to be.
As ever,
Peace
Alter Funker
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