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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Honestly, the Liberals could have a "buy everyone a hat" platform and it would be less ludicrously stupid than "buy broken fighter jets" and "allow a for-profit prison system to exist".

Give me a break.. . Just because you investigate something doesn't mean you are going to implement it, as you imply.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-...money-1.967126

Feds studying private prisons as way to save money

Last Updated Friday, September 21, 2012 11:58PM EDT

OTTAWA -- The Harper government has been quietly studying private prisons in other countries as a possible model to save money in federal penitentiaries, CTV News has learned.
The government hired the consulting firm Deloitte & Touche to examine prisons in seven countries aimed at building an “understanding of various models, approaches and experiences,” according the 1,400-page report obtained by CTV News under the Access to Information Act.

Deloitte studied in detail 10 prisons in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain and Belgium -- providing an assessment and recommendation on each prison’s “relevancy to Canadian market” and their “relation to Correctional Services Canada.”

Some of those prisons in the Deloitte study were fully operated by private firms, while other institutions hired companies for basic services such as cleaning, laundry and food preparation services.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews acknowledged he discussed the idea of private prisons with his British counterpart in a meeting in May, but said he ended up ruling it out.

“I didn’t feel there was any benefit to going toward a privatization model, that is the private supervision of prisoners,” he said. “We have no interest in going to a private model which would put the supervision of prisoners in private hands.”