I really don't see where you people are getting this opinion that people in my profession have anything to do with why the justice system fails. I have nothing to do with sentencing, defence, or anything remotely in those areas. I am there after the sentencing, after all the bullshit, who tries to make sure when this person does get out of jail (whatever his sentence may be), he or she has the highest possible chance of re entering society, by providing them with schooling, trades, and also attempting to re unite them with their families during their stay in jail, and/or residential housing. I am not a psychologist going out to the judge telling him that it wasn't the coke heads fault that he stabbed somebody, instead blaming his mother for not breast feeding him for long enough. No, instead I am the one telling the 14 year old that he cannot see his parents until he is 18, because his father sexually abused him when he was 8, and has since gotten out of jail and moved back in with the mother (who has now remarried, and lives with her new husband). Furthermore, the mother has mental problems, and was herself sexually abused by her grandfather. That 14 year old, funnily enough, robbed a block buster at knife point, but was only cautioned, and moved out into residential housing (i, once again, had nothing to do with the sentencing. i only get him referred to me after all that is done). what i am doing now is trying to get him to get his grade ten certificate, so he can get an apprenticeship, and hopefully be able to live independently when he does turn 18.
so sorry, but i still cannot get on here and crow about how happy i am that those two guys died.