Courtepatte conclusion...of sorts.
Well, yet another one of the people accused in the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of Nina Courtepatte has been sentenced. Not really much to say in the sentencing of 21 year old Joseph Laboucan, of Fort St. John, B.C. to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. Not really sure if it means 'life' if you go in at 21 and get out at 46 for possible parole. I mean, life is life, not just a stint in jail. Figure the parole years in prison should be sort of moveable. If you are a 45-50 year old going in then yes, 25 years for parole is good, but if you are 21, then life is nothing more than just a small stint in your life since you can still come out and live a life of either another horrible crime or straighten up and make the best of the last 40 years of your life.
I wonder if criminals that go in for life, when they come out on parole and work for say 20 years with a clean nose, can they get a Canada Pension, and would it be rated against their time in prison? I mean, take this guy for example, he goes to prison at 21, lives 25-30 years under tax payers dollars to stay alive with a jail cell, 3 meals a day, and possibly TV, internet, education at his disposal (hell, he can go for his masters degree while in prison at tax dollars expense), comes out at 46/51, has seen the error of his ways and works for 19-14 years at a job and then retires. Would Canada pension look at in the way of "you have only worked for 19 years of your life in Canada, therefore we are giving you 1/6th of what a person that worked their whole life would get" or would they say "yep, canadian citizen, worked, here you go, same as what a normal citizen would get"?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070323/Courtepatte_case_070323/20070323?hub=Canada
UPDATE: Was talking about this case with a friend of mine and he came up with another point that he was disturbed about, and now I am sort of as well. Turns out that there is a 'faint hope clause' in the Canadian Criminal Code (Section.745.6) which states that a person doing a life in prison can apply for early release after only serving 15 years of his current sentence. The reason it is called the 'faint hope clause' is because people apply for this early release but only a very few people ever are granted this. Still, it is rather unnerving to know that a person can be sentenced to life in prisonment and still apply for early release after only 15 years.
I wonder if criminals that go in for life, when they come out on parole and work for say 20 years with a clean nose, can they get a Canada Pension, and would it be rated against their time in prison? I mean, take this guy for example, he goes to prison at 21, lives 25-30 years under tax payers dollars to stay alive with a jail cell, 3 meals a day, and possibly TV, internet, education at his disposal (hell, he can go for his masters degree while in prison at tax dollars expense), comes out at 46/51, has seen the error of his ways and works for 19-14 years at a job and then retires. Would Canada pension look at in the way of "you have only worked for 19 years of your life in Canada, therefore we are giving you 1/6th of what a person that worked their whole life would get" or would they say "yep, canadian citizen, worked, here you go, same as what a normal citizen would get"?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070323/Courtepatte_case_070323/20070323?hub=Canada
UPDATE: Was talking about this case with a friend of mine and he came up with another point that he was disturbed about, and now I am sort of as well. Turns out that there is a 'faint hope clause' in the Canadian Criminal Code (Section.745.6) which states that a person doing a life in prison can apply for early release after only serving 15 years of his current sentence. The reason it is called the 'faint hope clause' is because people apply for this early release but only a very few people ever are granted this. Still, it is rather unnerving to know that a person can be sentenced to life in prisonment and still apply for early release after only 15 years.
posted by Capt_Canuck at 8:11 AM
1 Comments:
i think in S'pore, there isn't any parole system; you serve your full term as pescribed by the judge. So much for the S'pore prison being there to 'rehabilitate' offenders.
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