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by Randy Cassingham

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Self Defenseless
“We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they’re doing,” says Tim Krause, spokesman for Corrections Canada, the country’s prison authority. That’s the thinking behind a new policy for all maximum-security prisons: guards may no longer wear “stab-proof” vests. “If you have that kind of presence symbolized by [such protective gear], you’re sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person.” The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers is protesting the new rule. Several guards are flouting the regulation, wearing vests they purchased themselves. (Edmonton Sun) ...While inmates are anxious to test for the presence of vests, using shivs they made themselves.
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