WTF?!? Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early

[SlowwHand]

I don't understand, at all.
ASHER! Can you help me with this, please?

(Reuters) – Canadian prison authorities were forced to release a 450-pound (205 kg) drug gang member this week because he was too large for his cell, the Journal de Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Michel Lapointe -- known as Big Mike -- was arrested in September 2006 and received a five-year sentence in May this year. The paper said he could not fit on the chair in his Montreal prison cell and when he went to bed, his body protruded six inches on either side.

A letter from the authorities to Lapointe said: "You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health".

The authorities also cited the refusal of two other facilities to accept the 37-year-old. He was freed late on Tuesday.

"I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in," he told the paper outside the prison.

"I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them," he said.

[Asher]

This is in Quebec, not in Canada. There is no explanation. They do crazy **** to piss the rest of us off.

[SlowwHand]

The bastards!

[Asher]

They probably deported the guy to Ontario, too.

[Kidlicious]

Re: WTF?!? Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I don't understand, at all.

What part do you not understand. He's too big for a cell. Obviously they need a special cell for him that they don't have.

[SlowwHand]

Sounds like a personal problem.

[Q Classic]

Or, they could do a medical checkup to see if he's got a thyroid condition, and monitor his eating habits...

[CrONoS]

He was supposed to be released from prison early February!

Administratively they surely have thought that the cost was too high ( to adapt his cell), considering how long he would have been kept there.

... but yes, we dropped him on the Ontario border.

[CrONoS]

He look handsome ...

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Sounds like a personal problem.

Well you're from Texas where the cells are 3x3 so your opinion on the matter doesn't mean much.

[Flubber]

Re: Re: WTF?!? Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early

Originally posted by Kidicious


What part do you not understand. He's too big for a cell. Obviously they need a special cell for him that they don't have.

That sounds odd. he is only 450 pounds so its not like a fairly standard size room could not contain him. Its large but not so very large that its unfathomable. It sounds as if a slightly larger bed would work too.

Bottom line is that he served over two years of a 5 year sentence. Given how easy Canada tends to be on parole, he was probably due to get out soon anyway and they probably couldn't be bothered, particularly if he has health issues.

[CrONoS]

Re: Re: Re: WTF?!? Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early

Originally posted by Flubber

Bottom line is that he served over two years of a 5 year sentence. Given how easy Canada tends to be on parole, he was probably due to get out soon anyway and they probably couldn't be bothered, particularly if he has health issues.

In 2006, he pleaded guilty at the accusation of being a member of a criminal biker gang. According to our law on gangsterism, when you plead guilty, and you're not accused of anything criminal (otherwise than being a member of criminal gang) you can be liberate on parole at half the sentence.

[Kidlicious]

So what is this about his weight then. Are they just trying to be insulting to him?

[Winston]

Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early

Good. Now immense numbers of criminals will eat themselves to death trying to copy him.

[SlowwHand]

I just wrote of a heavy killer on Texas Death Row, insisting he was too large now to execute. He was wrong.