-- MONTREAL -- An obese inmate known as Big Mike is heading home early from a Montreal jail, as it appears that size does matter behind bars.**********
Michel Lapointe, who was imprisoned on drug-trafficking and conspiracy charges, walked out of Bordeaux Jail on Tuesday night after winning early parole – granted in part due to the health difficulties caused by his 400-plus-pound girth.
Normally, he would have had to go to a halfway house. But Mr. Lapointe was rejected by two such institutions because they said they couldn't accommodate someone his size.
So he got to go home.
FROM THE COMMENTS:
"And Lapointe is obviously working hard to correct his health problems...*
'On Tuesday night, after his release from jail, Mr. Lapointe was photographed by a Montreal newspaper outside the prison gate, a cigarette in hand.'"