Dear Editor:
RE: Wants prisoners freed, April 23.
We already have a Canadian Rights and Freedoms Centre. It’s called the Charter. Check it out.
Canadians are indefinitely under lockdown in their own homes, some facing egregious fines for daring to walk their dog or sit alone on a park bench! The professor wants actual convicted criminals set free so they can – what?
The numbers he states are Canada wide. Compare those numbers of positive cases in prisons to the number of seniors locked in nursing homes across Ontario and are actually dying by the dozens!
How does one identify criminals who are unlikely to re-offend? One cannot predict the future as the New York City mayor found out recently. Mayor Deblasio was shocked to discover that some freed prisoners from Riker’s Island immediately reoffended.
Finding and rearresting the perpetrators took time and personnel which were now distracted from the real problem facing the city.
If the professor wants to assist the prisons, then volunteer your very learned self to solve the problem. Releasing convicted criminals into a hurting society will not protect, and is an affront to, law abiding Canadians.
Doreen Henschel,
Rockwood