Prison tattoo parlours get the axe

The Conservative government is cutting a safe-tattoo program for federal prisoners, despite concerns the move will increase the spread of AIDS and hepatitis C.

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Here is a good example of how a task, any task, will cost ten or twenty times as much if the government is involved. All of the equipment for the six tattoo parlors would cost no more than twenty thousand dollars. The inmates could have run the damn things with a little instruction. How did we get to $950 thousand dollars?

And you wonder why everything was privatised in the 80's eh?

Same thing here in old Blighty (Bilyati in hindusthani, which means foreigner.....ironic).

Good to see it axed. Despite the present popularity of tattoos, prisons should exist to rehabilitate, not debilitate. Speaking of inmates' futures, of course. Tattoos are generally symbolic of a lifestyle Canadians hope these individuals will leave. Getting more of them doesn't seem smart thinking.

Thank God we finally have a gov't that borders on sanity..........any thought of a possible return to Liberal "largess" in every idiot money-spending scheme possible gives me the tremors.