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A Win Win Crime Strategy

Here we are in early January and no doubt many people are hard at work trying to stick to their New Year’s Resolutions.  Every year countless people vow to quit smoking, go on a diet, start exercising and make other healthy life style choices.

How ironic then, that we go out of our way to encourage addicted offenders to maintain their destructive and anti-social life style.  As fast as the police can arrest them, the courts set them free, knowing full well they’ll offend and score again in a matter of hours.  Or less.

There are world class treatment strategies in Canada’s penitentiaries.  Unfortunately, you pretty well have to kill someone to get the minimum two year sentence that would send you to such an institution.

More likely, the addicted chronic offender convicted of robbery, theft or trafficking is going to be sent to a provincial lock up for a sentence of less than sixty days.  Chances are he’s been there and done that a dozen or more times.  The inmate will watch TV, play cards and soon return to the same old same old.

Consider also, what happens when someone is given a substantial sentence of more than two years.  Because the Government of Canada has mandated that offenders be released as soon as legally possible, regardless of how a person serves their time, there’s little incentive to seek treatment.  There’s no requirement that drug addicted offenders undergo treatment in order to qualify for early release.  Even a first year psychology student understands that we can encourage motivation through the reward system. 

So ultimately, many such offenders realize it’s easier and less stressful to do their time while under the influence.  Drugs are always plentiful in the prison system and corrections workers are significantly restricted in their ability to undertake invasive searches of visitors.  You can thank Trudeau, ChrÃ

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