Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he has no problem with the number of federal inmates sharing cells built for one.
And
even as he reiterated his commitment to building 2,700 new cells in
existing prison facilities, he said those additional units aren’t meant
to alleviate the pressures caused by double-bunking – because there’s no
need.
“We won’t make any changes on the double-bunking policy.
Double-bunking is appropriate. All Western democracies use
double-bunking, dual accommodation, in appropriate cells,” he told The
Globe and Mail in an interview. “And we will continue to do that.”
Mr.
Toews used a Winnipeg press conference Wednesday to underscore that the
increase in inmate population isn’t nearly as high as Corrections
Canada projected. The Tackling Violence Crime and Truth in Sentencing
acts were expected to result in 3,600 more inmates into the penal system
by March of 2013; increases so far are closer to one-third that.
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