Mr. Speaker, from correctional officials, deans of law and police to former inmates, evidence that prison farms work is overwhelming.
Working with living things builds empathy and is restorative, and working on a farm builds work and life skills that are critical.
Yet the government is killing the program, killing it with no information, no proof it will save a cent. It insults farming, calling it a dead industry, and ignores rehabilitation and job skills used in other sectors.
Will the minister do the right thing? Will he visit the farms, look at how these farms transform these men's lives and save our prison farms?