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Oh yes, folks - its true and its a Canadian.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081112/canada/canada_us_fat
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081112/canada/canada_us_fat
Mapcinq said:" Canadian prison authorities were forced to release a 450-pound (205 kg) drug gang member "
Whats a "drug gang member"? Is he made of drugs?!
Niteshade said:I love how the rights of the inmates are so important... meanwhile those same inmates completely ignored the rights of their victims.
Nites
Steel Badger said:We used to have a delicacy know as Beancake in the system.....to feed to the very naughty.....
Apparently, ( Bruce can correct me here); they stopped serving it because of pressure from the mope-lovers...
Much like the vaunted "good time" You know: the bit where an inmate gets 1 day off his sentance for every 2 served with good behaviour..... Thus 1/3 of the sentance can be remitted for being good.... sounds like a great control measure hmmm? Hell yes you say: if the mope becomes naughty, remove his earned ( or ability to earn) good time! Send a definite lesson about expectations of behaviour....
But to still the impending chorus of cheers; the system rarely ( re: almost bloody NEVER) takes away good time..... Our system ( Ontario anyway) feels that it is too much trouble to properly staff such things ( read extreme laziness on the part of management) combined with pressure from interest groups HORRIFIED by the cruel way our poor misunderstood darlings are being treated.
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PETA urges vegetarian diet for convicts after obese inmate released
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MONTREAL — An animal rights group says a vegetarian diet could be just the ticket to keeping obese cons behind bars.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has made the suggestion to the warden of Montreal's notorious Bordeaux jail after the facility gave early release to Michel Lapointe, a 450-pound drug dealer nicknamed "Big Mike." The institution declared it couldn't accommodate his large frame.
Lapointe, who served 25 months in jail for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism, was paroled last week, three months early.
A Quebec judge knocked six months off the 37-year-old's sentence in May after prison authorities could not provide him with a big enough chair or table.
Tracy Reiman, PETA's executive vice-president, said in a letter Monday to Bordeaux warden Michel Gagnon that a "healthy, slimming vegetarian diet" would improve convicts' health and lower costs, preventing "people who break the law from breaking beds."
Reiman quoted studies that said meat-eaters have three times the obesity rate of vegetarians and nine times the obesity rate of vegans. She said a vegetarian diet lowers the likelihood of developing heart disease, obesity, diabetes and certain types of cancer.
"Not only will inmates be able to fit through cell doors, they will also be costing Quebec taxpayers less for prison health-care expenditures and they'll be saving billions of animals from suffering and dying on factory farms and in slaughterhouses," she said.
Officials for Bordeaux jail were not immediately available for comment.
Lapointe has been ordered to stay away from bars and he will have to meet with a parole officer on a regular basis over the next three months.