You Does The Crime You Does The Time

But you do it under the auspices of the those you screwed.......let them pick up the cost of getting their pound of flesh. I don't understand the "stranding" part of the headline. Like Stockwell says; ""B.C. dope dealers busted in the U.S. are demanding to be transferred back to cozier Canadian jails and reduced prison times," he wrote. "Memo to drug dealer: I'm no dope ... Enjoy the U.S."

Tories accused of stranding Canadians in U.S. jails

Richard Foot

CanWest News Service

Friday, September 07, 2007

OTTAWA -- The Conservative government has become the first in a decade to deny Canadian citizens imprisoned in the United States the chance to serve out their sentences in Canada.

Documents from the Correctional Service of Canada, the agency that deals with international prisoner transfers, show that from 1997 to 2005, Ottawa approved every application to transfer a convict from a U.S. to a Canadian prison.

In 2006, the year the federal Conservatives took power, five transfer requests were denied, even though U.S. authorities had approved the transfers.

This year, as of June, 12 transfer requests already approved by the U.S. had been turned down by Canada, while only two were approved.

In the five years before the Conservatives took charge of the agency, the government approved an average of 38 transfers from U.S. prisons each year.