TX Conservatives Reject Canadian PM's Stephen Harper's Crime Plan

[Winehole23]

By contrast, Levin says, the Canadian government has increased the prison budget sharply, even though crime in Canada is down to its lowest level since 1973.


In fact, federal spending on corrections in Canada has gone up from $1.6 billion in 2005-06, when Stephen Harper's Conservatives took power, to $2.98 billion in 2010-11. That's an increase of 86 per cent. Soon, it will double.
Federal corrections budget: Canada

• 2005–06 $1.6 billion
• 2010–11 $2.98 billion
• 2012–13 $3.13 billion

The Harper government has already increased prison sentences by scrapping the two-for-one credit for time served waiting for trial. Bill C-10 would add new and longer sentences for drug offences, increase mandatory minimums and cut the use of conditional sentences such as house arrest.
In each case, Texas is doing the opposite.


So are several other states — egged on by a group of hardline conservatives who have joined the Right on Crime movement. These include Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, the tax-fighter Grover Norquist and the former attorney general for President Ronald Reagan, Ed Meese.


That's not a list of liberals. Marc Levin says Canada is out of step with the best conservative thinking south of the border.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...gleeditor k

[boutons_deux]

PIC is just another taxpayer-wealth-sucking scam.

The corps buy the politicians and judges who pass the incarceration business back to the corps who buy the politicians who ...

[coyotes_geek]

VRWC, now available in Canada!

[boutons_deux]

yep, conservatives, to their own enrichment, screw everybody everywhere.

[Winehole23]

VRWC, now available in Canada!

The downturn and ensuing revenue shortfall has caused conservatives in the TX lege to consider the limits of incarceration: how much prison can we really afford?

(Sounds like Canada has already taken a similar path. I doubt they'll get better results.)

[coyotes_geek]

The downturn and ensuing revenue shortfall has caused conservatives in the TX lege to consider the limits of incarceration: how much prison can we really afford?

(Sounds like Canada has already taken a similar path. I doubt they'll get better results.)

Texas' problems could be easily fixed (at least IMO) if we could ever just get over the notion that simple stoners need to be locked up. Quit locking up the stoners and then we can throw the book at violent offenders to our heart's content and the taxpayer would still come out ahead.

[Winehole23]

Amen.

[boutons_deux]

TX spends a lot more per prisoner than it spends per student.

[boutons_deux]

mj user and small possessors is a huge positive for cops making their arrest quota.

As always, the country is way ahead of the assholes in Congress and WH about decriminallizing mj. the PIC and drug warriors will fight decriminalization with $10Ms buying off legislators, and of course the hypocritical "Christians" will fight it.

Marijuana Legalization Receives 50 Percent Support In New Poll

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1016461.html

[coyotes_geek]

TX spends a lot more per prisoner than it spends per student.

24/7/365 vs. 8/5/180