Mr. Speaker, it is easy to determine why prisons are full of drugs. It is not that we cannot, it is that we will not. The reason we will not is because we do not have people on that side of the House with the intestinal fortitude to implement that kind of measure. They would rather sit back and not get too intrusive with the inmates in the penitentiaries. I am sure they would find some way to say that it offends the charter of rights. They would want to check that out very carefully. Would it be a right to be a heroin addict in the pen?
The sad part about it is that about 80% of those people are there because of drugs. That is what put them there in the first place. In prison it is more plentiful than you could ever imagine. I might as well sentence my Uncle Henry who is an alcoholic to the wine cellar for the rest of his life. It does not make a bit of sense. That is the problem with the entire group over there. Most of the things that happen just do not make sense.
When drugs are the cause of putting a person in a penitentiary, then why do we not work hard to get it out of the penitentiary and save these people from their own fate?