Growing Into Responsible Maturity
There, then, the punishment to fit the crime has been seen to have been visited upon the guilty. Six months spent in a federal penitentiary for the crime of manslaughter doesn't seem like much punishment for taking a life, but it seems it represents the usual discipline meted out to those found guilty at trial of having too much disregard for the safety of others while under the influence of alcohol.
Jack Tobin, son of a popular former premier of Newfoundland, sentenced to three years for impaired driving causing death, has appealed for day parole. He has served six months of that three-year sentence. It was his best friend whom - during a Christmas Eve's youthful exuberance of gross stupidity - Jack Tobin killed by sad misadventure.
Two of Jack Tobin's good friends, Alex Zolpis and Owen Seay, somehow fell from the back of the truck as their popular and so-much-fun friend, Jack Tobin, spun the vehicle 180 degrees on an icy, snow-bound parking space on top of a Byward Market restaurant roof. Young Jack had imbibed more than twice the legal limit of alcohol, according to a breathalyzer test by Ottawa police.
"It is the board's view that you have benefited from this incarceration and are prepared to live a different life when released. The board is satisfied that releasing you on day parole at this time will not result in undue risk to the community and will contribute to the protection of society by facilitating your reintroduction into society as a law-abiding citizen."
So, it is done; in several weeks' time, at most, the much chastened privileged offspring of a former politician will leave incarceration, and be able to look for a job, complete his education, and become reintegrated into society. He must abstain from alcohol, is prohibited from driving, and must report to the halfway house every night until such time as his parole period is completed.
Jack Tobin is fortunate, among the 66% of those applying for day parole to be successful. They must appear to have launched their own journey toward rehabilitation with exemplary prison records, and to have expressed sincere regret for what had occurred that brought them to justice.
This was Jack Tobin's first serious run-in with a criminal offence.
But it was not the only one; he had previous to that deadly occasion, been apprehended for drunk driving. Sometimes a 'cure' takes a traumatic shock. It's just sad beyond imagination that the shock and the cure would have to come at someone else's expense.
Jack Tobin, son of a popular former premier of Newfoundland, sentenced to three years for impaired driving causing death, has appealed for day parole. He has served six months of that three-year sentence. It was his best friend whom - during a Christmas Eve's youthful exuberance of gross stupidity - Jack Tobin killed by sad misadventure.
Two of Jack Tobin's good friends, Alex Zolpis and Owen Seay, somehow fell from the back of the truck as their popular and so-much-fun friend, Jack Tobin, spun the vehicle 180 degrees on an icy, snow-bound parking space on top of a Byward Market restaurant roof. Young Jack had imbibed more than twice the legal limit of alcohol, according to a breathalyzer test by Ottawa police.
"It is the board's view that you have benefited from this incarceration and are prepared to live a different life when released. The board is satisfied that releasing you on day parole at this time will not result in undue risk to the community and will contribute to the protection of society by facilitating your reintroduction into society as a law-abiding citizen."
So, it is done; in several weeks' time, at most, the much chastened privileged offspring of a former politician will leave incarceration, and be able to look for a job, complete his education, and become reintegrated into society. He must abstain from alcohol, is prohibited from driving, and must report to the halfway house every night until such time as his parole period is completed.
Jack Tobin is fortunate, among the 66% of those applying for day parole to be successful. They must appear to have launched their own journey toward rehabilitation with exemplary prison records, and to have expressed sincere regret for what had occurred that brought them to justice.
This was Jack Tobin's first serious run-in with a criminal offence.
But it was not the only one; he had previous to that deadly occasion, been apprehended for drunk driving. Sometimes a 'cure' takes a traumatic shock. It's just sad beyond imagination that the shock and the cure would have to come at someone else's expense.
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