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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Sometimes environmental factors can have an effect on the criminal psyche.

For example, a well placed rock through a downtown window and an uninspired footchase with some pilfered goods in October could reward a homeless person with a nice warm bed and three square meals a day in a provincial institution for the winter. The provincial jail in Shediac is only five years old and is quite fetching on the inside I hear...........

I may be joking, but it is not untrue that some people do perform minor petty criminal acts in the fall to get in jail for the wintertime.

Man, don't tell Thunder Bay's criminals about this. They'll flock to Moncton to commit petty crimes.

Here's the situation at Thunder Bay District Jail:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...-overcrowding/

Last year was a particularly bloody one: Inmate-on-inmate assaults more than doubled from 2018, with an injured inmate being taken to hospital every few days

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The facility was often locked down for days at a time because of staffing shortages, Mr. Townsend noted, with inmates confined to cells measuring about six feet by eight, sometimes with three or four men to a cell. Others were held in what’s known as “emergency housing,” including tiny booths with no toilets and no contact with other inmates.

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the number of officers posted there remaining largely stagnant, even as the inmate population has swelled
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resi...6P4IZREAGE.jpg

...“there is 1 doctor, 2 times a week, for commonly more than 190 inmates”; “laundry comes back soiled, if it even comes back at all”; and “staff are commonly overworked.”

In August, 2019, he’d shaded in red pencil crayon 14 days on a calendar, indicating lockdowns. In September, he’d marked 17 days. Ministry records showed even more: 20 partial or full lockdowns in August, 2019, and 23 the following month. “We are locked down following a riot caused by all the lockdowns,” Mr. Townsend wrote, describing the four days from Sept. 8-11.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...-overcrowding/

The article goes on.



Is this good for police and correctional officers?

Is this good for inmates?

Does this situation positively affect the mental state of inmates and improve affect their chances of rehabilitation? (Keep in mind this is the jail, not the prison, so most of these are people awaiting trail, they have not been found guilty and sentenced yet)

Is this system providing society's desired outcome with regards to crime and rehabilitation?

Is increasing the number of police and number of prisoners (which has been done on an annual basis for nearly two decades now) working?

And if you said "yes" to any of these, please explain why, because I can't.