Evil United States-ians
Requiring prison inmates to wear a photo ID tag that lists race along with their name, date of birth, eye and hair color, weight and height is an egregious example of racial profiling that is innapropriate, illegal and another sad example of how corrupt American values are creeping into Canadian society, reports the Toronto Star.
The Central North Correctional Centre, “run by a U.S.-based private corrections company,” the paper helpfully tells us in the second graph, uses the IDs to keep track of inmates.
But Toronto lawyer Julian Falconer, a prominent voice on race relations, called them a “perfect example of systemic racism” and unquestionably a violation of the prisoners’ human rights.
"Compelling inmates to bear their race ... is completely abhorrent to our value system and this is a perfect example of why leaving our jails up to private interests guarantees all kind of injustices," Falconer said.
Barry Scanlon, an official with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, said the policy "just shows that they brought America up to our prison system."
"This is another example of what happens when you let a private operator from a foreign country run one of your prisons," he said.
Requiring prison inmates to wear a photo ID tag that lists race along with their name, date of birth, eye and hair color, weight and height is an egregious example of racial profiling that is innapropriate, illegal and another sad example of how corrupt American values are creeping into Canadian society, reports the Toronto Star.
The Central North Correctional Centre, “run by a U.S.-based private corrections company,” the paper helpfully tells us in the second graph, uses the IDs to keep track of inmates.
But Toronto lawyer Julian Falconer, a prominent voice on race relations, called them a “perfect example of systemic racism” and unquestionably a violation of the prisoners’ human rights.
"Compelling inmates to bear their race ... is completely abhorrent to our value system and this is a perfect example of why leaving our jails up to private interests guarantees all kind of injustices," Falconer said.
Barry Scanlon, an official with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, said the policy "just shows that they brought America up to our prison system."
"This is another example of what happens when you let a private operator from a foreign country run one of your prisons," he said.
