System leaves few options
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I was charged with failing to blow. Penalties: $600 fine, crimial charge, one-year driving suspension. I understand my fines.
I am 61 years old. I lost my job and lost my driving privileges.
What are my options? I don’t have a job, and I don’t have a car to find a job. Also, the Abbotsford bus schedule is not very accommodating.
Okay, what are my options?
I have to pay rent, have to pay utilities, have to find additional ways to find employment. I refuse to live on the street. If I have to get rid of my property I will.
I could commit a further offence and get a jail sentence where I wouldn’t have to worry about living on the streets.
So then what happens? I was a normal person, paying my dues and then one unforseeable offence happens and I am in jail.
I can understand even that. Then I am released and then I have nothing.
What do I want to do – go back on the streets? No, I want to go back to jail where I can be warm, get a free meal and maybe even an education that I couldn’t afford before.
Please, help people understand that this is what is happening in the judicial system.
Why do we have criminals? I am thinking of becoming one – there aren’t many options.
Why is our system behaving this way?
Donna Enns
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