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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
I'm more worried about these types of people getting out of prison and murdering someone else, which has been an all-too common occurrence with our justice system.
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Is it?
658 cases of murderers paroled between 1975 and 1990. 78 per cent were not charged with any crime after release. 13 per cent had parole revoked due to a technical breach of parole conditions. 9 per cent were charged with an indictable offence. Only a third of those indictable offences were against a person, the rest were narcotics and property crime. A total of 5 committed another murder.
So fewer than 1 per cent of paroled murderers kill again. Which is no consolation to those killed. But it's hardly an all-too-common occurrence.
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/fo...042c-eng.shtml
People can make their case for harsher sentencing in murder cases. But the facts don't support deterrence or public safety as legitimate reasons.