I am not keen on an election right now, but this politically based "law and order" agenda has to go.
Tories to end conditional sentences for property and serious crimes (Crime-Legislation)
Source: The Canadian Press
Jun 13, 2009 15:36
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TORONTO_ People who commit serious crimes like arson or kidnapping shouldn't be serving sentences from the comfort of their own homes, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Saturday.
To toughen up the law, he's planning to introduce legislation Monday that ends conditional sentences for perpetrators of property and serious crimes.
The move is another in a series of Conservative initiatives meant to tackle crime that's being put forward just as the session comes to a close, and so Nicholson couldn't say exactly when he hopes to see such a law passed.
But he made clear he believes too many offenders are being sentenced to house arrest, which doesn't reflect the severity of the crimes they commit.
``I always say to people there is a cost when people who should be detained aren't detained, that is a cost to society,'' Nicholson said at an announcement in Toronto.
``So the cost of incarceration is a cost that society and the system will bear.''
Nicholson argued that earlier legislation moved by the Tories to end conditional sentences was ``gutted'' by the opposition. Crimes like theft over $5000_ which includes most auto thefts_ robbery, arson, break-and-enters, home invasion, impaired driving causing bodily harm and kidnapping, were scratched.
He says the new legislation will make a wider-ranging list of offences ineligible for conditional sentences, which represent imprisonment of less than two years and often isn't actually served behind bars.
He couldn't provide more specific details, but said ``it'll go much farther than where we're at right now.''
Less serious offences, which pose low risk to the community, should be the only ones given a conditional sentence, he said.
Earlier this month Nicholson also moved to repeal the ``faint hope'' clause, which means that anyone convicted of first- or second-degree murder would no longer be able to apply for early parole.
The Minister says his numerous law-and-order announcements aim to ensure court sentences are meaningful and reflect the severity of the crime committed.
James Morton
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11 comments:
"Crimes like theft over $5000_"
Does that mean that Flaherty and Harper should be charged after they imposed a 31.5% tax on Income Trusts and "robbed" Canadians of their retirement savings?
LOL
So you think house arrest is just fine, do you? Have you ever had your house torched, only to have the perpetrator smirking as he's lead off to house arrest? Meanwhile, you try to pick up the pieces of your life.
Why do you libs always side for the offender and not for the victim?
And what piece of legislation did the Liberals just support?
C'mon, I know you remember.... I'm sure it will be different because it always is when it comes to hypocrisy (be it Liberal or Conservative)
Big Winnie
Hell , I would have been thrilled with house arrest for those two clowns.
They would not even say they were sorry.
All the investor got in that case was "it was your tough luck for believing us".
Thanks Jim & Steve.
Dr Mike Popovich
None of which will actually prevent theft or arson from happening in the first place.
As usual, I am right with you on this one Morton. I don't understand why people can't see that increasing numbers of people in incarceration just increases recidivism. I believe the 'right' can't see this because reactionaries are just haters at heart and get their aggressions out by proxy in punishing anyone they can for any reason.
Actually I have been a victim of property crime (and other crimes, but that was more because of my work). The property crime made me very very angry and upset. But it didn't make me stupid. I put in security. And I would like the offenders caught and treated so that they commit no more crimes. I don't wamt them, for example, crucified for my vengeful enjoyment. Prison isn't that bad but it doesn't work, at least not the way we run them in Camada today.
Perhaps a little hard labor instead of the Club Fed that we have now might turn some of these perpetrators around.
I disagree with you. I have no issue with intermittent sentences so as to allow offenders to maintain jobs, etc., but conditional sentences are handed out too readily here. Hanging out at home is not sufficiently punitive. It devalues the credibility of our criminal justice system which is already seen to be weak.
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