Okanagan Jail on back burner

[JLM]

I just heard on C.B.C. news that the proposed jail is on the back burner to be revisited months down the road, as there is apparently no immediate need for one. At the beginning of the year they were looking for an immediate decision as to location (Lumby, Winfield, Summerland, Penticton, Penticton I.R.) Referenda were held. How much money has been pissed down the drain on this charade? Politicians are so fickle! :smile:

 

[In Between Man]

Well I'm all for more prisons but not in Lumby because I want to retire there someday.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Well I'm all for more prisons but not in Lumby because I want to retire there someday.

So you're all for squandering of your tax dollars?

 

[In Between Man]

So you're all for squandering of your tax dollars?

If there's a true need for more prisons how is it squandering? There's a whole list of garbage I would rather cut before a new prison.

 

[JLM]

Well I'm all for more prisons but not in Lumby because I want to retire there someday.

I find that rather odd thinking. Lumby would be a safer place to live with a prison there than not. :smile:

 

[In Between Man]

I find that rather odd thinking. Lumby would be a safer place to live with a prison there than not. :smile:

I suppose, as long as I can't see the prison from my property. I'd rather see trees than a barb wire fence.

 

[JLM]

I suppose, as long as I can't see the prison from my property. I'd rather see trees than a barb wire fence.

It might not look much different from a hospital. Farms have barb wire fences.

 

[DurkaDurka]

If there's a true need for more prisons how is it squandering? There's a whole list of garbage I would rather cut before a new prison.

That's the point, if there is a need. Last time I checked, crime isn't booming in Canada.

 

[JLM]

If there's a true need for more prisons how is it squandering? There's a whole list of garbage I would rather cut before a new prison.

There probably isn't as much a need for more prisons than a need for managing better what they have. For one thing you can take the pedaphiles and drug dealers and traffickers and put them 10 to a cell, along with the white collar criminals. Most of the rest can be managed in the community, especially with ankle bracelets that can track their location at all times.