the reality is that the jails in the united states, a country that has long enforced these kinds of draconian rules that conservatives like ford want to enforce here, are full of retards that never get properly diagnosed or tested and will never rehabilitate because they can't. we do the opposite and call it humane and hopeful, but it isn't humane and hopeful, and the outcome is not much better. the last thing canada should want is to get in the habit of throwing retards in jail, like the americans do. but the evidence is also clear that not giving them the support they need frequently leads to terrible outcomes. the middle point is returning to the institutionalization model that was abandoned due to neo-liberalism.