Logic? In the same context as Steve Madely? This man exemplifies the absolute worst of the Harpercrites base - uninformed, opinionated, loud, and not about to be swayed from his pandering, populist crap by any hint of reality or reason.
The man’s a waste of the airwaves.

I don’t know anything about the CFRA or Steve Madely but if he said ” if drug addicts are arrested and jailed enough times they will voluntarily seek help for their addictions rather than go back to jail” then he can’t be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
It would help if prisons were drug free and the sentence mandated rehab while the individual was in custody. If someone runs afoul of the law as a result of their addictive behaviour it would just make sense to address the addiction in the sentencing. But that would probably complicate the conviction process and no doubt infringe on someone’s civil liberties.

Thanks for the info stageleft
I see that CFRA are playing to their audience.
There is a poll as follows;

A criminologist hired by the Harper govt to assess Vancouver’s experimental safe injection site has given it his support. Prof. Neil Boyd says it has decreased injection debris from discarded needles, decreased injections in the area, reduced needle sharing & increased success in getting some drug users to enter treatment & counseling.

1. This is an illegal activity and users should be arrested.
68.1%
2. It sounds better than Ottawa’s free needle and crack pipe program. We should look at it here.
29.4%
3. Other
2.42%

In answer to your btw,
How about they don’t get out until he or she has been clean and has at least gone through the motions for the duration. It might help those that still have some degree of self respect.
Not an idea that is likely to happen anyway because that would result in addicts receiving different sentencing than non addicts for the same crime.
How about making the drugs legal and addiction illegal???

What’s the answer to helping these folks and/or protecting citizens, rather than defaulting to Steve Madely’s option?