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| OpEd: Cutting edge of mayhem |
| By The Sachem and Glanbrook Gazette |
| Published: 10/24/2008 |
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CANADA - Call me a born cynic but when I read that Corrections Canada was building a new housing facility at Kingston's Collins Bay Institution for 400 prisoners and the architect was going with the "open concept design," something sounded not quite right. Now I like things open and airy and sociologists will confirm that such spacious atmospheres are conducive to creating grand ideas like a formula for world peace or in the case of 400 convicted felons, mass exodus, but still the plan seemed problematic. I'm sure the bureaucrats at Corrections Canada believed the open concept was cutting edge in moving away from the more traditionally designed prisons with their cramped cellblocks, dark passageways, annoying barriers and time-wasting locking systems. And maybe the open concept of mingling, sharing stories, swapping photos would have worked if the people they were housing had been Red Cross volunteers on a three-day goodwill conference instead of killers, rapists and violent offenders. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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