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Two years ago, a federal task force report titled "A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety" recommended the federal government end statutory release, which has a failure rate of 40%, and replace it with "earned parole."
Today, an offender working hard at rehabilitation is often treated no differently than an offender who is seeking only to continue his criminal lifestyle," the report concluded. Many violent criminals "have no interest in rehabilitation and are content to 'wait out' the system," until they reach statutory release.
The panel believes that any arbitrary release that is not made based on rehabilitation is counter-productive and, when aggravated by shorter sentences, reduces public safety.
PM Stephen Harper should implement it, although realistically, it would take a Conservative majority government to do so.
5 comments:
This concept makes complete sense, therefore the Liberals and NDP will oppose it and CBC will denounce it. Unless it means forcing an election.
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the fuzzy-bunny socialist coalition doesn't believe in punishment... they're all about rehabilitation.
meanwhile... the victims of crime are completely ignored.
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Implementing Earned Parole, as opposed to statutory release was in the Tory '08 campaign platform. I'd be surprised if they don't move on it. Especially since it won't be long (three months or so) until they have the majority in the Senate.
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i think luke nails this one... the conservatives should lean real hard on this proposal.
then sit back and watch jack, gilles and the puffin king impale themselves on the shady side of this issue.
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Well that number is even higher than the US rate, which I think from memory is around 25%... maybe there is something to those longer sentences.
But then what do I know, I'm not a university professor. Just some guy who worked in the system a little bit and saw these guys with their long criminal records full of repeat violent offences and wondered exactly how somone who was supposed to be in jail at the time still seemed to be committing violent offences... on the community.
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