Saturday, August 7, 2010

2714...Money Well Spent

QMI Agency's Mathieu Turbide is on page five of today's Ottawa Sun with the story about the nearly $120,000.00 that our government spends on condoms for federal inmates.

!120! K.

You know that is going to enrage the Tory base and scores of letters will be written to the editor regarding this waste of money.

Except it is not a waste of money.

"A study conducted for Corrections Canada in 1995 found 6 % of inmates admitted to having sexual relations with other prisoners...HIV in prisons is 15 times higher than the general population...Hepatitis C is 39 times higher."

If these condoms prevent one O N E one case of HIV/AIDS/Hep C they will have paid for themselves.

The only cutback the WFDS would make is on the $2,664.00 that Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener spent on baby stoppers. Grand Valley is a a women's prison.

WFDS

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