Canada says, "You're too fat for prison."

[Beardo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081112/od_nm/us_fat

OTTAWA (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.

Note to self, if I ever get in canadian prison all I need to do is just eat all the time and they will release me.

[Cormacaroni]

How can you be in prison for 2 yrs and not lose weight? I somehow doubt that whatever he's going back to is going to be more conducive to restoring the poor waif's health than prison food and pumping iron all day to deter bad people from stabbing you.

[laesperanzapaz]

It's the correct decision, unless this guy is a boss or decision maker within the gang.

- less cost to taxpayer for the dang prisons
- i'm pretty sure his record is criminal'd
- this is canada baby!

[Cormacaroni]

I dunno, I kind of like my streets to be drug gang-member free, as much as possible. I say lock him back up with some broccoli.

[brawndolicious]

I say lock him back up with some broccoli celery.

fixed.

couldn't they just have combined two beds though?

[laesperanzapaz]

I dunno, I kind of like my streets to be drug gang-member free, as much as possible. I say lock him back up with some broccoli.

nah send him to texas, where he'll have plenty of company

oh texas.  what a shit state