Mr. Speaker, it was recently reported that the 1994-95 cable TV bill for providing cable services to prisoners at the Mountain and Kent institutions totalled nearly $60,000. That is for one year.
Criminals should be punished for their crimes. Yet we have murderers, thieves, rapists, and drug dealers being treated to such luxury as cable TV, compliments of the taxpayer.
My question is for the solicitor general. Why is he wasting taxpayers' money to provide prisoners with cable TV when many of our law-abiding citizens and seniors cannot even afford to keep it?