I HOPE THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS ON SEARCHING THE GUARDS OF THOSE JAILS
Oh bully!
The Conservative government of Stephen Harper has decided to attempt to tackle the prison drug trade after failing miserably on the streets of Canada.(Oh there must be pounds and pounds of drugs ending up in jails eh?)
Harpers’ Conservatives announced a new project that would see millions spent on drug enforcement in Canadas’ prisons where according to reports, there are more drugs available than on Canadian streets.(that report came from me:))
Oh have I got news for you. According to the report the majority of drugs being sold in Canadas’ prisons are being put there by organized crime…which is absolute bullshit.
The vast majority of drugs in Canadas’ prisons are actually carted in by hard up guards that trade those drugs for goods inside of the prison. While in the good Queens’ custody it was routine for me to sell cartons of smokes to one guard in particular who would bring me in bags of weed.(the guards are not searched by anyone)
One guard really liked the sides of beef and pork that were removed from the kitchen cooler by inmates and then handed over to him…he’d bring in tons of good hash and oil for those prisoners in return for their co-operation. Another guard that worked in the works and engineering department of the last prison I was in, made off with tools, and cutting torches(that were brand new in a box yet)and wrote them off to “inmate theft”.(yeah, I never met one guy in there that had a cutting torch in his cell)
Nope Mr Harper, you might think that hiring hundreds of people will make a difference, but the fact is, those people that you are hiring are probably bigger criminals than the ones locked up….leaving me to wonder, who is guarding who?
Maybe the government should consider hiring an ex-convict to assist them on this one.(At least that person might have a clue of what is really going on in our prison system.)
Oh yes, I almost forgot to add that this issue is pandemic across the entire correctional system…including halfway houses(where managers have provided all kinds of funny things to people..in exchange for cash)and provincial institutions and their respective remand centers.
jimbender
I think Harper knows the real story behind drugs in prison. It’s no big secret. He’s just throwing money around to try and impress his fundie neo-con base. It’s bullshit and it will only fool the dimwits in the party. The vast number of conservatives that have a few warm brain cells are walking away after being sold out by a budget that could just as easily have been written by Jack Layton.