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April 21, 2006
79 year-old Peter Demeter, who raped his wife before
bluedgeoning her to death in 1973, is alleging that
Peel Regional Police "tormented" him into
giving a blood DNA-sample when it was unneccessary.
After the arrest, he argues, Peel police already collected
his DNA from the semen inside his wife, Christine Demeter,
a once internationally known supermodel. There is no
material benefit if his case is successful, but Demeter
claims he is doing it "for the principle of it,"
confirming his claim that he did not, and simply could
not, kill his own wife. (Kingston Whig-Standard,
21 April 2006)
November 18 2005
Bath Institution opened its own tattoo parolour, the
first and only of its kind in the prison system worldwide,
in an effort to provide a substitute to the existing
methods inmates use, including sewing needles, guitar
strings, and homemade ink made from burnt polystyrene,
a common synthetic used to build cafeteria-style bowls,
trays, plates and cups. According to the New York Times,
45% of inmates in Canadian prisons get a tattoo sometime
during their periods of incarceration. The parlour looks
like a cinder-block dentist's room, The parlours costs
about $100,000 for the government to build, but inmates
pay about $5 per two-hour session in the parlour.
The guards' union argues that the project will not
last, pointing to evidence that inmates have already
stolen some of the needles and inks and used them for
illicit tattooing, such as reproducing gang-insignias
(The New York Times 24 Nov 2005 ).
20 February 2001
Two female mothers of murder victims made headlines
by publicly critcizing the Bath Institution for its
"Country-Club" conditions. Elaine Jensen,
whose husband hacked her 3 daughters to pieces in Calfary
in 1998, and Eve Peck, whose sister was strangled to
death in Toronto in 2000 by Anton Lorenz, toured Bath
Institution while their targets of hatred lay segregated
in an isolated part of the prison. Bath institution's
medium-security "open-correctional" environment
was considered the object of the women's criticisms,
where offenders are transferred to prior to their release
(National Post 20 February 2001).
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