Pubdate: Fri, 29 Oct 2004
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Section: Page A27
Copyright: 2004 The Province
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Author: Gary Nelson
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?137 (Needle Exchange)

PRISON SHOULD BE A PLACE TO KICK HABIT

I'm responding to the article in yesterday's Province about the need for a 
needle exchange in prisons.

We need a needle exchange for prisoners like we need another hole in our heads.

What are drugs doing in prisons in the first place? Prison is a place for 
them to get a chance to kick the habit.

People who advocate things such as needle exchanges in prisons should be 
charged for aiding and abetting crime and promoting illegal drugs.

Solicitor-General Rich Coleman seems to be the only one who talks any sense 
when it comes to crime nowadays.

I hope that you have an editorial thumbs up for him for all the initiatives 
he has been taking.

He is a breath of fresh air after years of listening to Ujjal Dosanjh being 
an advocate for everything but a doer of little, even though he had the 
authority as attorney-general and then as premier of the province.

Gary Nelson

Richmond 
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