Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre posted on X Thursday about a recent jail officer stabbing at the Kent Institution in Agassiz BC, slamming the Liberals for unleashing chaos.He claims this is an example of "the latest chaos Liberals have unleashed in our prisons, allowing open drug use and consequence-free violence."John Randle the regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) said the officer was attacked Monday during a routine pat down and stabbed in the side of the face.The officer was treated at an outside hospital received stitches to his face and was released a few hours later.Poilievre references an interview with the regional president of the UCCO for the Prairies, Jake Suelzle, who says most of the prison changes have occurred in "the last 10 years."."The big form of contraband inside was with tobacco and cigarettes but that has been replaced with meth — harder drugs now, " Suelzle says."And the violence that comes along with that. What was a rare occasion in federal prisons is now a daily occurrence, whether its — inmate-on-inmate or inmate-on-staff."He says inmates even use drones to get things like weapons, drugs, and cellphones "timing it to rec periods or movement periods."The Western Standard spoke to Randle asking him further about the assault..The weapon he says was "a homemade prison shank. The standard prison shank that the inmates make with a piece of metal that they had got their hands on."The RCMP's investigation into the stabbing is ongoing and no details into the assailant can currently be identified."It was an attempted murder — when you try and stab somebody in the side of the head," he says..Randle says there needs to be "more accountability given to the inmates when they do commit these acts" since, "right now our biggest fight is a lack of accountability for the inmates once they commit an assault.""If you're not at that point following the rules of prison and are going to commit egregious assaults you should be going to the special unit, almost right away," states Randle."They're forgetting these inmates are in prison for a reason. And these inmates eventually are going to get out of prison.""He's going to be a member of society. So if he's not rehabilitated, and he doesn't learn to follow the rules in prison, when he gets out of prison, what's he going to do?"
