Cory Morgan: Cut Bureaucracy, Target Repeat Offenders: Fixing Canada’s Crime and Corrections Strategy

A correctional officer drives past the main gate to the Mountain Institution in Agassiz, B.C., in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Commentary

Few things infuriate the public more than seeing news stories of released chronic offenders carrying out serious crimes. When a known, dangerous criminal has been set free into the public only to commit a crime shortly afterward, it feels as if the system has failed.