Parolees are still considered to be serving their sentences, and may be returned to prison if they violate the conditions of their parole.
Conditions of parole often include things such as obeying the law, refraining from drug and alcohol use, avoiding contact with the parolee's victims, obtaining employment, and maintaining required contacts with a parole officer.
James Morton
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Parole is subjective because Parole Offices despite employees being paid well, don't know the simplest definitions of the job description. When you don't have a condition to report to a PO the Office threatens you with illegal imprisonment for not showing. They give you conditions like a behavioural assessment or some stupid term and a list of places where this can be undertaken. Ask what the assessment is for to two dozen different Courts phone ##, you don't get an answer (mental health, drugs, career counselling, WTF?). Yet it must be done on a tight schedule. So you go to these offices, ask their employee about the weird assessment, NONE of them have ever heard of it. So you beg the guy to write you a letter explaining they were full of shit ($10000 in make work I'll say again). He does :)
Then you get phony 911 forced entries in the middle of the night....in the cruiser there were a couple firearms distress radios, but I was too busy being transferred to a higher level of prison away from any source of vitamin C or orange juice that could save my cut weed injested body.
But by all means defend the book definitions, even if they are read by any of about two dozen different employees (paid to know this shit).
Morton, am I the only one that got screwed over or how many of your clients got an impossible condition (that I fulfilled) and who were sent to career counselling offices that didn't have any "behavioural counselling (I forget term)", and didn't have a nice guy to write a letter he didn't have to? 10% prisons innocent here? 20%?
They gave me an impossible condition, insisted there was such a service, and I was lucky enough the 3rd office I went to get a summer student to set them right.
I'll say it again: I fulfilled an impossible condition of theirs. Others aren't so *lucky*.
Isn't too bad here yet. Our prison economy is half size of USA but twice EU. In wrong direction ever since RCMP launched a phony investigation on P.Martin.
I urge shrinking this inefficient prison economy.
(last post for a while I'm know I'm drowning your blog, maybe too active law blogs can direct readers here where their comment volume becomes unwieldy?).
If I wasn't trying to stay alive long enough to injest lemon juice (vitamin C should be available in every prison environment), not so bad. There I asked what was lacking in terms of quality-of-living. Smoke breaks for good behaviour taken away. I know lung cancer issue, but if chewing tobacco or khat or pipes or THC or cigars were to made available to sad prisoners for good behaviour, it would really give people something to look forward to. I would accept such a feather and move on.
I'm asking myself if S.Harper wanted me dead in 2007 as a result of prison economy.
Given madantory sentencing, I know it isn't personal but he can only answer: yes. I'm forgiving because I respect Jesus's teaching how to treat others. Especially the part about the poor.
...point with all this isn't to whine or make Harper-kills-prisoners jokes, it is to outline some minor prison reform specifics, but more importantly to stress not to build a prison economy with mandatory sentencing.
There are so many cracks and so many innocent lives are ruined. Not just in the present but via the lobby effect of bigger prison economy in the future. Can't have empty beds once a prison is built.
I hope I'm wrong but AB might be making a horrific mistake by encouraging hard drug actors (such as Mexican Cartels) to try the just as profitable now weed trade there. Also staph infections are ever growing problem everywhere, but likely to be ignored among prison population.
IDK how you OD in your kidneys or whatever, but it almost happened to me people of some petty vandalism like what I've done as a 10 year old, and because there doesn't appear to be any drug OD screening in prison or police stations.
If anything increase ankle bracelets and monitoring and begin shutting down some prisons and take non-repeat violent sentences all in the lighter direction, before boomer healthcare costs rise (comes out of same budget).
...and to add more to an issue no one will touch (not Right obviously, but the Left is too afraid of being branded soft or letting anarchy happen in the streets, or whatever:
Is the practise of guards banging nightsticks on bars every 1/2 an hour the norm? In a homeless shelter, I was okay on the steel beds but took a day job the lasted overnight. Demoted to a wooden bedbuggy bed. It is so much harder to escape a shelter without sleep. I think the same would be true of the psychology of someone who sees same depressing walls every day. No need to encourage mental illness. Let them sleep.
I also think the primarily purpose of prison should be to segregate repeat violent offenders from peaceful society. 2nd, segregate from attacks in prison (the logic is when released will be less violent to society).
I place rehabiliation and punishment very low, because of the $80000/bed cost to society. "Punishing" someone non-violent by taxing your income and denying the offender house arrest or whatever....everyone loses except the immediate prison economy employees and political points gained. But with such an expensive cost, surely no employees need to lose income, just retrain to a different job. If u want healthcare for boomers maybe 6(?) nursing home beds can be opened for every prison bed retired. The nursing home assault rate is 25%. Is a need for a guard there.
Close 1/2 the prisons, have the guards monitor ankle bracelets wearers or whatever (IDK options).
$80000/yr, bad for taxpayers.
Living in prison, bad for mental health. lose lose. CPC Mandatory Sentencing is lose lose lose.
Not sure who or how I had quality control issues. But if Health Canada or CFIA took up quality control this would never happen again to anyone else.
Final thread post, any institution, hospital, mental, prison, should be about making a life within. Prison shouldn't be about people on the outside haggling over what freedoms to fund out of fairness, and from within it shouldn't leave you feeling like you are still in prison once released. This is often forced for soldiers, doesn't have to be here.
With prison it is different from society in that you segregate violent prisoners from society for the safety of society, and then further if necessary from within to prevent murders. Maybe allow boxing or ultimate fighting? IDK.
The point is, you still can live a good life in either circumstance. There are cost issues, but I think I have *proven* detailing my own personal experiences how the institution of a prison economy automatically fill beds; I'm sure this cost is far more than whther or not to buy cable and dessert or whatever. IDK anything about rehab. The point is, the shittier the quality-of-life, the few as possible people you place there. Don't err on the side of "caution", these are $80000/beds sucking from soon healthcare stressed budget.
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