Ferndale

Saw the famous Ferndale Institution where former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and convicted murderer Colin Thatcher is spending his 25 year murder sentence. There are no fences and there is a private 18 hole golf course for the inmates. He livines in a town house that is larger than my house. There is an episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob is in jail and the jail has a rowing team. That isn’t parody in this case, it is reality. I don’t believe in capital punishment but at the same time I am not sure I believe in townhouses and golf courses either.

I know institutions like this provide incentive for good behaviour and I assume they are designed to be an incentive to inmates who have no other incentive to behave otherside but it seems more than a little weird… in a Simpsons kind of way.

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