🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul Cormier (pcormier@bfield.uucp) wrote:
: Does anyone live near the newly proposed women prison that's going up in south
: Kitchener?
: 
: Personally I don't think that was a very smart choice when there is land
: available on the outskirts of the town with no body around it.  An even better
: idea, one that should have been put forward a long time ago would be to put
: them all in 1 central *ISLAND* isolated somewhere... up north!  Who cares about
: their rights?  Why does the prisons have to be scattered around the country...
: so that they can be closer to whatever friends/family they have?  Nah, just
: doesn't cut it.


Well, well, well.

Let's put it this way. If all the prisons were concentrated, any residents
in their midst would be even more offended than you are. Also, the area
would become a ghetto. This is not desirable--for the sake of the prisoners.

Now, just because they have run afoul of the law doesn't make them any less
human beings. Especially in this case. Less than 4% of the women in Canadian
prisons today are there because they committed some violent crime. Of that
4%, I'd bet lock, stock and barrel that at least half of them rose up
righteous and beat the crap out of their boyfriends/husbands who put them
through hell and back. I don't condone killing, but their are arguments for
justifiable homicide in cases where the perpetrator has been abused beyond
belief...or repair.

Not in my back-yard, hmmm? This 19th-century attitude makes me want to throw
up. Do you think sir, that if we just lock them away the problem will
disappear and you can go back to your WASP world where everything is
perfect?

I close with a snatch of song: Spirit Of The West's "(Putting Up With) The
Joneses":

...Lock  'em up, and throw away the key, boys,
The Joneses, they're not like you and me. 
Lock 'em up tight, 'cause if they had the chance they might
Show us that we're wrong and that's the one thing we can't be...

: 
-- 
KEN BREADNER: student lunatic. Opinions expressed herein are mine, unless
they aren't, in which case, well, they aren't. Wilfrid Laurier University:
'abandon hope, all ye who enter here!' --Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 
"2+2=5, the future is behind us and the past is on its way. Please hold."