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OpEd: Legere status public concern
By Times & Transcript
Published: 07/22/2008

CANADA - The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is apparently planning to sometime this week transfer convicted serial killer Allan Legere from the super-maximum security in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines in Quebec to a regular maximum security prison despite the fact he has escaped from maximum security custody before. Legere has perpetrated what are among the most grisly and ghastly murders ever seen in Canada, but CSC won't even admit such a decision has been made, citing its governing acts and federal privacy legislation. It is a cloak to evade responsibility and accountability to the public and this is bureaucracy acting as a law unto itself.

Few would deny prisoners, even those as depraved as Allan Legere, some reasonable rights. Yet to say that revealing which prison he is being held in, or will soon be in, violates such rights is pure nonsense. Read more.

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