Questions no one is asking: Where are they getting the drugs?
Two prisons in Canada will be trialing a new prison needle-exchange program aimed at lowering the risk of spreading disease associated with drug use, according to Correctional Services Canada (CSC) and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.
Quite the racket you’re running there, Ralphie.
What? The mob now runs our prison system? Who knew?
Libranos run the whole country
Winner!
The pricks are inside and out.
People with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and plentiful drugs.
What could go wrong?
If Timmy isn’t an addict going in, he will be coming out.
Years ago, I worked with convicts , now called “inmates” because convicts had a negative connotation, same people ,different name, mostly lazy scum who would rather deal drugs or steal than work hard to earn a honest living.
One day we were having a conversation at coffee break about drugs in prison and how much easier it was to get dope IN jail than outside. I naively said,” how do they get the drugs into the jail”?
One “regular” at the local provincial jail,whom I knew fairly well from working with him on several projects, scoffed and replied,” don’t be f***ing stupid,the Guards bring ’em in”. None of the other inmates disagreed, just looked embarrassed and stared at the ground.
A couple of years later, a newbie (about two years experience in that job) provincial jail Guard at a facility in the Fraser Valley broke ranks and made the same claim. He was suspended, the Union reps vilified his reputation, and he claimed there had been threats on his life. There allegedly was an investigation that went nowhere and quietly died with nothing being done.
The CSC always puts forward the idea that it’s the spouses of inmates who bring the drugs in, secreted in bodily orifices. Inmates laughed at that one and said they’d have to have vaginas the depth of the Grand Canyon to hold all the drugs they were supposed to bring in.
Free needles in a place they are supposedly rehabbing the inmates? That’ll FAIL to work as expected, but at the same time the geniuses in charge banned cigarettes a few years ago because smoking is harmful.
Like every other government institution,there is the facade,and then there’s the reality, and the main idea is to maintain the status quo and keep all those civil servants working.
So the problem is the union. I am shocked.
Yeah … if I were a correctional officer … I’d prefer ALL the inmates were drugged out of their minds … laying like docile druggies on their cots all day long. Hell! I’d even inject them myself! And if I were a prison Warden … I would do everything (and nothing) to facilitate the delivery of drugs to the inmates. Screw “rehabilitation” … I’d prefer “chemical castration”.
Don’t forget free condoms for the soon to be drug fueled rise in prison rape.
That was my first question…where are the needles coming from that they’re exchanging? Aren’t sharps kind of, well, forbidden in prison?
I learned some hard facts about this topic when an Alberta neighbor’s teenage son was incarcerated at Bowden for little less than a year. This was due to a long string of property crimes he committed because of his nasty crack cocaine addiction. It was while he was in there, supposedly to be ‘rehabilitated’, that he was taught how to actually deal drugs. No question he came out a bigger threat to society than when he went in.
How do drugs get into today’s ‘prisons/jails’? That’s actually quite easy to answer. Any way you imagine they can. In his case it was a couple guards, some support staff, visitors and even little packets tossed over the fence at night. It’s not that there was no enforcement, he claimed it was simply weak and predictable. His mother and sister were actually barred from visiting him one day when the drug dog detected a roach left in their car’s ashtray, but these searches were not consistent and never once caught a dirty employee in the act the entire time he was there.
Oddly enough, he did complete counselling there and beat his addiction while inside, but, he still continued his anti-social ways when he got out and went on to deal and ultimately commit some truly heinous acts.
Our entire ‘justice system’ is horribly broken and ultimately counterproductive. But, I believe the root problem for this kid, as with so many, was a broken home and weak parental role models.
This would be an example of the LPC continuing the decriminalization of all “illegal” drug use.
talk to the guards. see if they know what pathway the contraband takes to get into a prison cell.
go ahead. ask them if clever inmates put the word ‘out’ (literally) for those able to to contact acquaintances, famblies of the guards with various scenarios, suggestions, and mebbe brown paper bags containing cash.
go ahead. ask them.
or read up on the old sherlock holmes adage about the last remaining possibility regardless of how unlikely, is the explanation.
Lots of ways to fix the problem. You just need the will and the political backing to actually do it.
1. Drug test the inmates. Segregate and treat the positive results.
2. Bring in the dogs to search. Everything inside the property
3. Start searching the guards, maybe by making them all walk past Fido and Rex to start with.
3a. If you get positive results, upgrade them to free uniform service, and they get to walk to the dressing room in the buff.
3b. (This would be costly) Bring in an entire new set of guards for two weeks. None of the regular guards allowed on site.
3c. Perform a financial proctoscope on the guards to look for extra money. Expect most of the guards to Up and Quit because of the invasion of their privacy.
-OR-
The Gooddale (Kenji) Approach,
DGAF. Let them all get and stay stoned until there is trouble. Use the drugs as just another privilege that can be taken away. This is how you get prison corruption, brutality, discrimination, and crimes committed by corrupt criminal guards and drug suppliers. Prison gangs get rich and get power by controlling the drugs. Don’t try to stop this drug trade, they will kill to keep it.
i.e. Status Quo.
I cynically note, it would be much cheaper and simpler to simply treat the needles with some VX or sarin nerve agents before handing them out.