Alberta studies jail privatization. (Romanow Commission).EDMONTON -- A government study of Alberta's corrections programs is a waste of money that could be better spent on health care and education, says the union representing the province's jail guards. The suggestion that the panel of three government MLAS MLAS Multiple Link Antenna System MLAS My Lips Are Sealed MLAS Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron MLAS Machine Learning and Applied Statistics will be asked to study privatized correctional programs in Ontario is of particular concern, said Dan MacLennan, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees is a Canadian trade union operating solely in the province of Alberta. With approximately 68,000 members as of July 2007, it is Alberta’s largest union. (AUPE AUPE Alberta Union of Provincial Employees AUPE Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (Singapore) ). He noted that the Solicitor-General Department, which announced the study, said in a news release that Alberta jails are already the most cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. to run in Canada. Jail privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned has been a failure everywhere it has been tried. In other jurisdictions, he stated, professional correctional officers will not work in private jails because of the poor pay. Most of the other issues to be looked at have already been studied to death, MacLennan said. He pointed to the subject of stab-proof vests as an example, noting that they are included in the list even though the department has already agreed to supply them. Nevertheless, he continued, AUPE members will co-operate with the MLAS conducting the study. 780-930-3311 |
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