OUR HOPELSS, ANTIQUATED JUDICIAL SYSTEM

Last Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this article by Carol Goar "Presumption of innocence being whittled away". It turns out that the John Howard Society, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Economist Don Drummond and many others have advised the provincial government to stop automatically putting so many people behind bars awaiting either trials or bail hearings. Apparently there are four reasons for this entrenched and expensive stupidity . They are inertia by the Police, courts and bureaucracies. Secondly fear whipped up by the likes of our idiot Prime Minister and his cronies. Thirdly is ignorance in that most Ontario citizens have absolutely no idea how and how badly our criminal justice system works. Fourthly there is a lck of political will. Wynne and the majority Liberals could clean up this mess if they wanted. They could save big bucks in doing so. Unecessarily bloated jails would be a really good place to start.