Local M-P Rick Norlock says opponents of plans to spent almost one-million dollars on milk for prisoners at Warkworth and two other facilities are twisting the figures.
A report this week indicated the Correctional Service had asked for tenders, budgeting 990-thousand dollars, for milk at Warkworth and penitentiaries in Kingston and Gravenhurst, after the dairy herd at Frontenac Institution is sold.
Norlock says that is a lot less than last year’s four-million-dollar loss for running agriculture training programs in the country’s prisons. He says he would also prefer inmates at Frontenac Institution be trained in industrial arts, like prisoners at Warkworth are, because there are more job opportunities in that when they’re released than there are in farming.
