Letters to the editor | June 22, 2020

Updated June 21 2020 - 11:47am, first published 11:09am
Ashley and Westbury comparison doesn't stack up
Ashley and Westbury comparison doesn't stack up

Apples and oranges

So Westbury people should be happy about a prison five kilometres away because Deloraine doesn't mind Ashley four kilometres from their town? Comparing a maximum security prison complex of 270 inmates with a detention centre holding a handful of juveniles, is like comparing a watermelon with a grape, or a snake bite with a flea bite. Sorry, but they are really not the same.

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