On more Prisons.

I take exception to the denigrating comments like this one: Sorento: 35 pages and not a single constructive comment from the HCon defenders."

Here are a few, that are not talking points:
Regarding prisons: Are our prisons over-crowded?
The answer is quite obviously yes.  Does over-crowding effect judges sentencing deliberations? In fact they do without question.  Does overcrowding impact parole decisions? I have no personal knowledge of that, so I leave that one hanging.  How does prison overcrowding effect morale of inmates?  Ask Manitoba with the riots that happened there last month:  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/07/22/man-stony-mountain-uprising.html and I quote: "...the riot was prompted by ***overcrowding and double-bunking*** at the prison, saying that will be part of the investigation by RCMP and an internal review by prison officials." and 5thly, Do the RCMP spend significant amounts of time re-apprehending repeat offenders?  The answer there is obvious.  And most important, what price would you put on giving back a child his or her life that wouldn't have been abused or raped and murdered, had the perpetrator been kept in jail?

What isn't intelligent is to sweep these issues under the carpet. To suggest by innuendo that the reason "they" build them is to make room for more prisoners like me and you.  That is intellectual dishonesty.  To take a complex multifaceted problem and distill it down to a sound bite, is either intellectual dishonesty or a reflection that people in this debate do not have the intelligence to have an opinion outside the NDP talking points.