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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   We know that anyone growing more than 6 marijuana plants is gonna do time.   
   We know that a prostitute soliciting a client is going to be charged.   
   We know that someone raising an ISIS flag is going to be tried as a terrorist.   
      
   But how about those 'high risk offenders likely to kill again"?  They're still   
   being released from prison into Canadian society.   
      
   And here's an example of how it often turns out . . .  Harper 'tough on crime'   
   government in charge.   
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   CBC News Posted: Sep 24, 2014   
      
   Raymond Caissie had been considered likely to kill by parole board   
      
   Man accused of killing Surrey teen Serena Vermeersch was considered a high risk   
   to reoffend   
      
   Raymond Lee Caissie, the ex-convict charged with killing a Surrey, B.C.,   
   teenager last week, was considered likely to kill or seriously harm someone,   
   according to documents released by the Parole Board of Canada.   
      
   Raymond Lee Caissie, 43, has been charged with second-degree murder charge in   
   the death of Serena Vermeersch, 17, after her body was discovered on Sept. 16   
   near a set of railroad tracks in Surrey's East Newton neighbourhood.   
      
   Caissie's arrest has touched off a fierce debate about why — and under what   
   conditions — he was released from prison in 2013, having never been paroled   
   and   
   after serving a full sentence of 22 years for a violent sexual assault.   
      
   B.C. Premier Christy Clark says the case demonstrates a need for more tools to   
   keep an offender deemed high risk in prison.   
      
   "I suppose we will never guarantee our society is entirely safe, and we   
   certainly can't keep everybody behind bars, but there are a few cases like this   
   one, and thankfully not many, where we can do a better job," Clark told CBC   
   News this morning.   
      
   Former B.C. attorney general Wally Oppal said the case, and the debate it has   
   sparked, presents difficult problems for society.   
      
   "You can't in the absence of any kind of compelling evidence, start to take   
   criminal proceedings against a person who has already served his or her   
   sentence. And that's the real dilemma that you have here in a democracy."   
      
      
   A lifetime of violence and prison   
      
   According to parole board documents, Caissie is a career criminal was first   
   incarcerated at the age of 15.   
      
   He served 22 years for kidnapping and violently and repeatedly raping an   
   Abbotsford, B.C., museum attendant in 1991.   
      
   He was denied parole eight times because he was considered a medium to high   
   risk to re-offend right up until the end of his full sentence.   
      
   "If you are released you are likely to commit an offence causing the death of   
   or serious harm to another person" the parole board concluded after his first   
   hearing in 2006, noting his numerous convictions for violent crimes and sexual   
   assaults.   
      
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   Photo of Raymond Lee Caissie released by the Matsqui Police Department after he   
   was charged with the brutal sexual attack on an MSA Museum employee (Matsqui   
   Police Department)   
      
   	Who is watching high-risk offenders? 3:21   
   	Kash Heed on Raymond Caissie RAW	   
      
   The parole board documents show how, despite completing several treatment   
   programs, including the Intensive treatment for sex offender program, Caissie   
   showed no insights into his violent behaviour.   
      
   "You have a long history of sexually inappropriate and violent behaviour dating   
   back to your youth," wrote the board after his 2007 hearing.   
      
   He clashed with prison officials over drugs, violence and weapons behind bars.   
      
   "In addition to your sexual deviancy, a major risk factor for you is your   
   tendency to ruminate over perceived slights and fantasize about taking   
   revenge," said the 2008 report.   
      
   The documents reveal police suspected him of other sexual assaults in the   
   Matsqui Institution. Toward the end of his sentence, Caissie landed in   
   segregation for his role in a violent prison plot to attack a guard.   
      
   In a final report in January 2013, a month before his release, the board noted   
   he had no plan for his release, and concluded he was still likely to harm   
   another person if released.   
      
   "There has been no change in the risk you present to the community and, in fact   
   ... your serious institutional behaviour over the past year has had a further   
   negative impact on your case."   
      
   Three months later Caissie was released to live in Surrey, under the   
   supervision of the Surrey Probation Office and the RCMP, who issued a special   
   warning to the public about his release.   
      
   On Monday he was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Vermeersch.   
      
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