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Prisoners want to extend time in custody due to Canada’s housing crisis, says criminal defence lawyer (nowtoronto.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We also have people driven to assisted suicide because they can't afford to live.

"In February, a 51-year-old Ontario woman known as Sophia was granted physician-assisted death after her chronic condition became intolerable and her meagre disability stipend left her little to survive on, according to CTV News. “The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the ass,” she said in a video obtained by the network. For two years, she and friends had pleaded without success for better living conditions, she said. Now a second case has emerged with several parallels: another woman, known as Denise, has also applied to end her life after being unable to find suitable housing and struggling to survive on disability payments."

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This has been a thing in the US for a while unfortunately. We acknowledge that food, shelter, clean water, and reasonable healthcare are basic human rights for prisoners, but when it comes to regular poor people? Suddenly we're a nanny state and they're abusing the system by... being alive, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Not even for prisoners, when you look at Texas inmates suffering and sometimes dying from unprecedented heat with no air conditioning.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

The biggest influence the “nanny” state has on housing in the US is that it artificially constrains supply with zoning that is far too strict.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck that's sad. We live in a dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

prison vs almost certain homelessness?

Sophie's choice right there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

You know the rules: do the crime, do the time. So get criming.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

so can someone fill me in? what happened in canada? influx of people and not enough homes built to keep up? homes are empty and being hoarded by capitalists? what?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

In Vancouver they had a lot of vacant houses that were investments or air-bnb's; however bad the issues are in Canada, in the US we won't even offer end-of-life support.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

How bad is life in Canada's prison? How long before we see a wave of nonlethal crime commited with the explicit purpose of getting jailed?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

When they get out of prison they should look up some corporate landlords. Two birds with one stone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Just need Soylent Housing now.