Appetite for food, sex at Regina prison seems unsurprising

Appetite for food is endemic as is that other well-known hunger. So it is that a food protest by inmates at a Regina prison has seen not only a review of the edibles but the dismissal of a food worker for having sex with an inmate in a freezer. The food protest has ended with a tart remark from the Premier, Brad Wall, that the food looks okay to him and if one doesn’t like prison food the choice as to where one eats is only a matter of going straight. Mr. Wall did not comment on the freezer activity, although the food worker cannot come back to prison, probably not  even if  she is convicted of something, which she isn’t. Thank heavens it’s not illegal. There appears to be no protest about the quality of her overall work in the freezer.

ONTARIO PRISON WORKERS SETTLE

In other prison news, the union representing 6,000 Ontario correctional workers says it has reached a tentative agreement to settle all outstanding issues in contract talks with the province. The deal was reached around 5:30 a.m., Ontario Public Service Employees Union President Smokey Thomas told CP24 in a phone interview Saturday.