“Under privacy rules, a photo of a convict can’t be released unless he gives permission and signs a release form, said Corrections Canada, even if he breaks out of jail.”
I agree with Leo – The Prime Minister should immediately fire the Director General of Correctional Services Canada. But let’s not stop there. I’d select 50% of the so-called “criminologists” on staff at random, and fire them too. Perhaps then, the other 50% would be reminded who they’re working for.
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Our federal government should hire this guy immediately. Here is another voice of reason to help with the huge task of reforming our justice system which was destroyed by the libs.
International treaties applying to CSC operations
* United Nations Charter
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* Convention on the Rights of the Child
* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
* International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
* Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
* Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners”
Maybe this is the problem, the CSC has to answer to not only our own Charter, but all these other ones, which no doubt spring from the fertile minds of the mighty UN.
Sounds like there are hundreds of rules protecting the rights of convicts, or “inmates”, and not too many protecting us!
And we wonder why our legal (it ain’t justice) system is so fubared? Perhaps if the Kyoto Kultists get their way,we all should just commit some crimes and go to Club Fed. After all,under all those treaties,we’ll at least have three squares,heat,and won’t be living in mud huts!
It would appear that criminals have greater privacy and other “rights” than ordinary, law-abiding citizens.
And that the Left and MSM appear to stand up for the former while leaving the latter to fend for themselves.
A consequence of allowing the Left to have its way, this is.
The above situation re. privacy rights for criminals will be reversed to favor law-abiding citizens and victims over them, or at least ensure that criminals aren’t any longer granted unfair favors by the state apparatus.
It’s time for ordinary citizens to get together, organize, pool resources and skills to combat the Left at its own game.
In fact, this is already happening. Most are unaware of this, as the MSM hasn’t been reporting on all the court cases being won against all sorts of Leftist and other abnormal entities.
You’ll see. The Left will not now become any more powerful, as it’s already losing battles here and there, never having expected that non-Leftists would ever figure out what they’re up to, figure out their game plan, tactics, strategies and dirty tricks and use it all against them in what I believe has been referred to as a “pushback”.
Hmm, Ministry of Corrections sounds like it needs a big budget cut. Decimating the upper management would handle most of these kinds of policy problems. Keep the jail guards and floor washers.
Tax cut. Now, please.
OK, no picture. Instead, a Corrections Canada guy has to take the prisoner’s place in prison.
Canadian Sentinel @12:40PM.
Finally – some good news. Any examples of this push back through court cases being filed and won?
This FOIPP thing has run away with itself and has become a tragic joke. It is used now by all manner of civil servants to avoid releasing information even when that information would reveal nothing personal about an individual. When dealing with government officials and civil servants, one must remember that their fail-safe position is to say no and reveal nothing, the ultimate CYA action.
Our long accepted concepts of freedom of speech and thought are now seriously endangered by anonymous civil servants and zealous self promoters backed by ivory tower theorists who have totally lost touch with reality.
We must continually pressure our elected representatives to amend and clarify our laws and regulations to avoid these ridiculous situations. Unfortunately, it seems to take a very long time to enact good law and even longer to undo bad law.
Without pictures we’ll have to recognize them by the tattoos that we paid for.
The list dmorris provides is instuctive, one can only guess at how many pages these run.
Perhaps its time for sane countries to become NON-members of the UN, where is the downside?
Assert our sovereignty and provide justice for our population not the assembled hoards of champagne socialists.
Immediate benefits would be a major reduction of the bureaucracy, university, legal and NGO leeches.
Our UN dues and funding of various UN schemes could be diverted to our own dire problems in the aboriginal community and health care for the aged or dare I say it? building more jails in unpleasant climates.
He should be asked to turn himself in and given the job of Director General of Correctional Services Canada. Sounds like he knows how to deal with trouble makers.
“He was involved in petty crime – robbing pizza delivery men and so on – with a buddy of his, and the buddy ended up admitting things to the cops, so Kevin took his friend out behind his parent’s house and executed him.”
This isn’t “new news”, a clip of this story has been up at work for some time now. No one can believe anyone would be so stupid as to not release this guy’s photo in this situation. It wouldn’t happen in Alberta.
Every once in awhile we run across someone so paralysed by the mountains of rules and regulations they forget reason and common sense. A few (very few) don’t have any common sense to begin with, and that’s certainly not exclusive to government.
Sounds like they have a dysfunctional department there. Funny, before I even read where it happened, I knew it was probably Quebec. No further comment on that front.
Unfortunately, if we want change, we’ll need to start with lawyers, judges, and the courts. A big part of the reason for the aforementioned paralysis is fear of having some dirtbag like this wriggle out because of a “technicality”, or worse, being charged and convicted themselves. It happens.
More dyslexic reading of rights from myopic termites in the foundations of the nation.
I may take the side of those who have served their debt to society being extended every civil courtesy of privacy had they astually paid a debt to society but with revolving door justice and double digit recidivism, putting up roadblocks to keeping track of a con is just plain socially irresponsible…like most of the justice and penal system…socially and civilly irresponsible….makes them complicit in recidivist crime.
In response to Neil, I offer the following link to an organisation which fights… and beats… the likes of the ACLU and other Leftist entities, including governments, in court:
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/main/default.aspx
It’s the Alliance Defence Fund. I get their regular mailings with news on victories against the Left… and there are many.
I recently also did a post on how Michael Savage is suing the CAIR for copyright infringement, as well as calling them a terrorist front organisation.
The best way to hurt a shrivelled servant at Correctional Services Canada is through their pension. Therefore, for every prisoner who escapes and is not captured within a month or portion thereof the Deputy Minister’s, and the Assisant Deputy Ministers’ pensions will be reduced by 1% until such time that the convict is caught. If he’s out for 6 months or a portion of then that’s a 6% reduction in their pensions and those cuts is permanent. Many changes would be coming and quickly I can assure you.
And posting the old posters reading WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE FOR 250:000 PISAQUAS
Why do we put up with this idiocy. The Firearms Control Officers are attempting to gain access to private homes in Toronto, in order to establish that guns are stored safely, without search warrents and yet we have known criminals that are protected by the Charter. Surely it is past time when the law-abiding taxpayers of this country should dictate in no uncertain terms the conditions that we are willing to be governed under. In the last thirty to fifty years we have become nothing except a money pit to the left-leaning socialist who think they know better. Well I’m getting a little tired of paying these morons that don’t have any common sense.
Correct you are Antenor, which is exactly why the gun registry and related legislation much be repealed. The police cannot enter the premises of the worst possible criminal without a search warrant, but they can go into the homes of law abiding citizens who have a registered firearm. In the Toronto case it is senior citizens who I suppose represent a much bigger threat to society than all the gun carrying thugs on the streets.
The situation with CSC is actually much worse than what is stated here. It has tilted so far left over the years of Liberal rule that it requires a major overhaul including policies, acts and regulations along with a complete cleansing of senior management starting with the Commissioner at the top. Inmates do actually have far more rights and privileges than other citizens except for not being free to go wherever they please.
I say we dig PeeAir True Dough, and hang him in front of parliment for a month, then flush him down a toilet!!!!
This is totally false, if a convict is released from prison and is deemed a danger to the public ( sexual offender, violent offender, pedophile, etc.), under section 410 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the subjects name and picture are given to the local authorities and media. The subject also has to report to the Parole Board regularly and keep them informed of his whereabouts, if he fails to do this he is in violation of the conditions of his parole, his parole is revoked and he is then sent back to prison. If someone escapes, the same rule applies, the subjects name and picture are given to the local authorities and media.
Hope this helps.
Dave.
‘Corrections’ Canada. A Clockwork Orange.
Was not the convict’s trial, conviction, and sentence a matter of public record complete with public attendance, media drawings and photographs outside the courtroom? Wasn’t he photographed and fingerprinted precisely so that he could be identified publicly if need be? When did this FOIPP nonsense suddenly start applying to the publicly convicted and sentenced criminal?
Canadian Sentinel – thanks for the link. I certainly hope that you are correct that the trend is heading back to normalcy.
“This is totally false, if a convict is released from prison and is deemed a danger to the public ( sexual offender, violent offender, pedophile, etc.), under section 410 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the subjects name and picture are given to the local authorities and media. The subject also has to report to the Parole Board regularly and keep them informed of his whereabouts, if he fails to do this he is in violation of the conditions of his parole, his parole is revoked and he is then sent back to prison. If someone escapes, the same rule applies, the subjects name and picture are given to the local authorities and media.
Hope this helps.”
Wow. Are you serious?
I live in the Jail centre of Canada. These scumbags have a revolving door to the courts.
You can’t be nieve enough to actually believe your own post?
Tommyboy
Tommyboy – Have you read the Corrections and Conditional Release Act? It appears “Dave” has, and I appreciate his post, which sheds some light on the topic.
It points to the real problem -misinterpretation or ignorance of the act and policy, and a lack of reason on the part of whatever bureaucrat made this idiotic decision.
If it was a lower level clerk – maybe someone new – then it’s a mistake that shouldn’t be repeated. If this decision was made by someone more experienced – say a manager – then it’s a more serious mistake, and should be dealt with accordingly.
Ultimately it compromises the safety of the public, and anyone in a position of authority who would allow that to happen needs to be removed from their position immediately.
There many things which are supposed to be allowed according to existing CSC acts, regulations and policies, but reality can be a very different matter. More times than not inmates have taken CSC to court (paid for by tax payers no less) to have the judge grant their complaint. This is why inmates have cable TV, street dress instead of inmate uniforms, free condoms, lubricants and dental dams, free bleach kits for needles, the right to vote, and the list goes on and on. This is not to excuse the prevailing attitude within CSC, but it does explain the fear of more court challenges.
Interestingly enough, Corrections Canada, with roughly 12,000 inmates in federal prisons at any given time, has about 15,000 employees. I’ve never been able to square that circle….
When I was a wee broth of a lad my parents explained to me that “life was cheap” in some countries in the world.
When I grew up, I found out they were right.
I wrote a letter to the editor of a major newspaper concerning that topic. My beef was and still is, that the photos of missing persons, wanted criminals and dangerous offenders always get published when it’s too late. (They do publish the photos of dangerous offenders in some states.)
The paper publised my letter–one slight problem, –they still don’t publish the photos on time here in Canada.
In 1970, some of my friends and I went to Montana for the weekend. Good ole Saskatchewan farm boys, we got a tad out of hand in the bar. The local Sherrif hauled us into the station, he agreed that I was safe to dive home. He reprimanded us for having raised hell, let us go without charges. (After he informed us that his father was the owner of the bar.)
Just as we were walking out of the station, a weird machine started spitting out a photo of a man who was wanted for an armed robbery in N. Dakota. Today, I beleive it’s called a fax machine!!
We have the technology. Now, if only we can find the will and the logic…….
I worked in a newspaper for many years. I’m not aware that there is any law that prohibits anyone from printing a photo of a person (or anyything else for that matter) in a newspaper, internet etc. unless a there is a court order that prohibits publication.
The problem is that mainstream media is more interested in publishing trash than protecting the public, AKA it’a readers. For example, If a prisoner escapes, the photo could be published immedialty, just as long as the media has access to a reliable picture! I challenge anyone to state what law would prohibit the National Post, CBC, SDS, etc etc. from publishing the pic just a slong as the photo was obtained legally. No Photo?? How about an “artist’s conception???
Leo quotes..
**CSC deliberately refused a request for a photo of that particular waste of oxygen. According to a story in the Montreal Gazette, **Under privacy rules, a photo of a convict can’t be released unless he gives permission and signs a release form, said Corrections Canada, even if he breaks out of jail.**
Keep in mind, this comes from a liberal swamp land.
Black Press publishes the photos of two convicts daily in dozens of BC cities and towns. Escapees must have all signed a release form as they skipped out, hoping their picture would appear in the press. = TG
Damn straight- I have been a citizen of this country, for over sixty years, (and I have been a TAXPAYER, for over forty years).
Where can I flush my citizenship, and get REFUGEE status, (where I would be better off)?
Hint: I am a white, anglo-saxon- geddit?