The measures the Crowns argue are not enough - plexiglass barriers, masks, distancing, sanitizer - are all things that have NOT been put in place in jails. Yet for 3 months I& #39;ve listened to Crowns argue that the jails are doing plenty. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht"> https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1277920373569437697">https://twitter.com/TorontoSt...

Don& #39;t get me wrong - I have no issue with anybody being concerned about their safety in the workplace. But I have a major issue with the double standard of it all. Some people deserve to be safe and others (my clients) don& #39;t, I guess.

Worth noting: not only have I heard Crown after Crown argue that jails are perfectly safe, but I have heard them repeatedly PRAISE the government for the state of the jails during Covid. The same government they now say isn& #39;t doing enough for them personally.

Do my clients have masks? Nope. Plexiglass barriers? Nope. Distancing? Nope. Sanitizer? Nope.

And the argument I& #39;ve been hearing most of the time hasn& #39;t been "yes, the jails are unsafe, but balancing public safety requires that Mr. X remain in custody anyway". That would be a valid argument in some cases. The argument has been "the jails are safe". Period.