The government’s decision to move convicted killer Luka Magnotta to a less secure prison two years ago has sparked complaints from conservative members of parliament. People who support prisoners are saying that the criticism is just about politics.
Magnotta, who is 41 years old, is in prison for the rest of his life because he killed a Chinese student named Jun Lin in Montreal in 2012. The terrible murder became news all around the world because there were videos showing the killer doing terrible things to the dead body and eating it.
On the first day of the week, B.C Conservative MP Frank Caputo made a video on X, previously known as Twitter, about his visit to La Macaza. He wanted to see the living conditions of Paul Bernardo, a famous rapist and killer, who is in a medium-security prison 190 kilometers northwest of Montreal.
While visiting the building, Caputo said that one of the guards mentioned that Luka Magnotta walked right past him.
Caputo’s video, which says, “Canada’s worst killers are living better than most Canadians,” has been watched almost 500,000 times. Some Conservative MPs have also shared their thoughts on it.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a law called Bill C-83 are responsible for Magnotta’s transfer. Bill C-83 was made to change the prison system to make it less strict for inmates.
Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer criticized the Liberals’ new bail reform bill, which his party thinks lets criminals go free too easily.
Trudeau not only allows dangerous criminals to be released from prison, but when they are kept there, they get special treatment. “It will cost you. ”
A person from the office of Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said that it’s up to Correctional Service Canada to decide how to keep inmates safe.
“Officials at the CSC make decisions about moving prisoners on their own,” said Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesperson for LeBlanc, in an email to CTV News. “The top priority is to make sure that the public and the staff at CSC are safe. ”
In an email to CTV News on Monday, CSC spokesperson Kevin Antonucci said that Canada’s correctional system focuses on helping prisoners change for the better, no matter how long they are in prison.
“This criminal has been in prison for almost ten years,” Antonucci wrote. “They are still in a safe place, and there is no set time for how long they will be there. ”
Our main goal is to make sure that the people are safe, and that is what we are still doing. I want to make it clear that there haven’t been any recent changes in the offender’s situation, despite what the reports say.
CSC didn’t say where Magnotta is now, but it did say he was moved from a high-security prison two years ago.
In January 2022, Magnotta’s lawyers asked a court to move him from a really secure prison in Quebec to a less secure one. They said the prison system had refused their request from last summer.
Cooper wrote on X that this happened because of PMJT’s policies that are not tough on crime. “Canada’s justice system is not working properly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 8 years in office. ” A Conservative government with common sense will make sure that violent murderers stay locked up in high-security prisons.
Conservative member of parliament Chris Warkentin said the news is “really surprising. ”
Luka Magnotta and Paul Bernardo might be playing tennis together this summer, and you are paying for it, the writer said.
Last summer, many people paid attention when a well-known murderer was moved from a high-security prison to a less secure one.
The transfer caused a new government rule to be made after it was kept secret. This caused a lot of political arguing, especially involving public safety minister Marco Mendicino, who said he didn’t know about the transfer until the next day.
During an interview with CTV News, Independent Senator Kim Pate, who supports young people and adults in prison, said that the comments made by Conservative MPs online were only about politics.
“Many people don’t realize what goes on in prisons. They think that moving someone from a high-security area to a medium-security area means they are being rewarded or their sentence is getting easier,” she explained. The opposite is actually true. Most people talking about this have never been in those prisons.
In an email to CTV News on Tuesday, University of Ottawa criminology professor and prisoners’ rights advocate Justin Piché said that even though Magnotta did terrible things, society should not treat inmates badly in return.
Piché wrote that it’s too bad the Conservative Party of Canada is talking about Club Fed again. They visited La Macaza and think that inmates having access to amenities and programs makes up for the bad experience of being in prison. “It’s obvious that the opposition party doesn’t care about the suffering caused by being locked up. “
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Conservative lawmakers respond to the prison transfer of Luka Magnotta
