Pubdate: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2016 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.ottawasun.com/letter-to-editor Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329 Author: C. W. Carpenter Page: 16 Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor. NEEDLESS CODDLING Are these bleeding hearts serious? How about the staff/ guards do their job and stop the drugs from getting into the prison in the first place? That would seem like an even more cost-effective way of fighting the growing HIV and hep C problem. Taxpayers are already paying for luxuries for criminals that citizens that follow our laws don't get free (cable, eye glasses, dental care, prescription drugs, food, roof over their head, etc). Since the 1970s, we have allowed the bleeding hearts to make Canadian prisons into a vacation resort (a free one at that). Criminals have not turned into model citizens, they have just become more violent and bold, with no fear of going to a prison "resort." C. W. Carpenter Ottawa - --- (Have to disagree on that. Sentences may be too light for some crimes, but we're under no illusion that prison time is fun time.) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom