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No more free tattoos for prison inmates
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| 12/04/2006
| By David Helwig
Posted on 12/05/2006 2:06:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: DemforBush
I'm going to sit here in stunned silence for a moment over the fact that a program like this ever saw the light of day in the first place.How does any miserable failure of a left-wing liberal agenda ever see the light of day?
S-word Happens
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posted on
12/05/2006 2:27:33 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
To: Responsibility2nd
No more free tattoos for prison inmatesWow. What a concept.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
12/05/2006 2:32:31 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Mr. K
Prisoners give each other tatoos already using sewing needles and sharpies. This was just Canada's ink version of a "clean needle exchange program."
Still a stoopid idea.
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posted on
12/05/2006 2:35:32 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: Responsibility2nd
Prison inmates should be working at hard labor for 8 to 10 hours per day. Then they should be showered (without any time for homo play) and fed and sent to their cells. No TV, no internet, no time in 'body-building' rooms, only time for reading and thinking. Period.
To: GOPJ
This was a few years back, but wasn't it a Canadian judge that ruled that a prisoner had a right to a state-funded sex change operation as a matter of mental health?
I think I read it on Free Republic, but it's been so long ago I can't remember.
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posted on
12/05/2006 2:36:59 PM PST
by
Ronin
(Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
To: Responsibility2nd
The government is providing tattoos for inmates? Why would they want them? It reminds me too much of this:
Auschwitz Tattoo. Number of Henry Oertelt B11291.
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posted on
12/05/2006 2:59:24 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Responsibility2nd
Under the previous government, CSC began a pilot project in six of its 58 federal correctional institutions in August of 2005 to offer inmates tattoos. Why would this seem like a good idea in the first place?
Tattoo removal yes but giving them more tattoos?
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:01:50 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Those who call their fellow citizens Sheeple are just ticked they were not chosen as Shepherds)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I think the idea was to give them free tattoos with clean needles. Not the dirty needles the inmates were using.
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:08:55 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
To: Responsibility2nd
Hmm - never heard of the show Oz?
They're cheaper than treating prisoners infected with HIV and every other STD out there.
To: Responsibility2nd
>>How? How would condoms in prisons save money?<<
I didn't realize this until recently but healtcare is the single largest line item in many state budgets - often %15-%20 of the total. Anything that reduces disease tranmission saves money as long as it doesn't cost too much itself. Condoms are pretty cheap.
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:12:23 PM PST
by
gondramB
(It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
To: PissAndVinegar
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:15:45 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
To: Responsibility2nd
"I think the idea was to give them free tattoos with clean needles. Not the dirty needles the inmates were using."
Precisely and absolutely typical of the bleeding-hearted, inmates-running-the-asylum 'thinking' at Corrections Canada.
You could obtain more or less the exact same result by removing privileges and/or adding time to the sentences of prisoners getting tattooed while in the joint but, bet the farm, that thought never even occurred to the ever politically correct de facto social workers running our prisons.
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:28:55 PM PST
by
GMMAC
(Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
To: Responsibility2nd
No free tattoos - guess they already have one inmate suing for hepatitis and another insisting on free laser removal. What's that going to cost my family?
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:42:21 PM PST
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: Continental Soldier
Inmates working? Unions won't have it. Personally, I believe it's a minimum requirement for paying one's debt.
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:44:51 PM PST
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: Fierce Allegiance
I'm 42, and it's amazing how there used to be a stigma about tattoos, earrings, etc. Those taboos have totally disappeared.
While I can admire the artistry in some tattoos, young people get the stupidest tattoos imaginable.
Watched an NBA game lately, about 90% of the guys are COVERED in tattoos.
To: Responsibility2nd
they want a free tatt??? here's an idea... tattoo their friggin CONVICT NUMBER on their forehead so the public can avoid them when they are released.
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posted on
12/05/2006 3:51:10 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: MplsSteve
I have to admit. I'm flabbergasted that Canada's prisons would allow something like this. What an absolutely fu**ing stupid thing to do!
Yes indeed, and notice that it took a CONSERVATIVE government to bring a halt to such lame brained nonsense.
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posted on
12/05/2006 4:20:35 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: word_warrior_bob
Watched an NBA game lately, about 90% of the guys are COVERED in tattoos.About the same percentage have criminal records.
To: Responsibility2nd
can you just imagine the hue and cry of the lefties if Harper made tattoo's mandatory?
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posted on
12/05/2006 7:49:09 PM PST
by
albertabound
(Its good to beeee Alberta Bound ( Go Flames)
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