Pastor Pawlowski: Canada incarceration is a “failed system”

Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski faulted the Canadian prison system for serving political interests and destroying inmates instead of rehabilitating them to return them to society reformed.

Pastor Artur Pawlowski in the interview with Rebel News

The founder of Street Church Ministries Pastor Pawlowski was sharing his personal experience with the Rebel News yesterday after 51 days in jail for supporting protests against Covid mandates.

“Nothing happens [in prison], but to sit, stand [and] eat. How can we, as a society, expect [incarcerated individuals] to be better people when they come out of jail? The clock doesn’t work, you cannot know what time it is” he said in an interview with Rebel News.

The 49-year-old father of three wondered how a civilised society like Canada can have prisons where food is scarce and a cause of fights, no light or fresh air and inmates put in solitary confinements, less treated than animals.

“Now I understand why [crime] is increasing in Canada. I understand why [incarcerated individuals] come out only to do the same things that got them into prison. You don’t need to be smart to know the [prison] system has failed” he said.

“I understand many of those people have committed terrible crimes and [should face] the consequences but we treat dogs better than those humans; we give blankets to cats and we take them outside three times a day for fresh air” he added.

The Polish-Canadian Protestant who suffered solitary confinement in jail said the treatment makes one lose conscience and hope in a country he thought there was freedom of speech for everyone.

“I was always in the dark in [a] Canada [prison]! If this was Poland when I was growing up, yeah, that’s how people are treated. But I was told Canada is a democratic society, [with] civil liberties, human rights [not only] for homosexuals” he wondered.

“When you’re locked, you go crazy. I’ve met people when they sent me to Edmonton and most of them have lost their mind not because of what they did or what was done to them outside but because of the [jail] system” Pastor Pawlowski commented.

The fervent critic of Covid mandates who had no right in prison to fast was always stripped naked and spent hours on concrete and inmates were not allowed to comment on the cruelty of the prison guards.

“A friend of mine was beaten by a prison guard for saying he liked me and the prayers and that I was not a bad guy. The guard came in the middle of the night and showed him that that [statement] was unacceptable. He was placed in solitary confinement for 14 days” he recollected the ordeal.

The Calgary Pastor also criticised the Canadian so-called mainstream media for taking sides with politicians instead of being neutral in their work of reporting on the dispensation of equal freedoms and rights of society members.

“My speech was deemed unacceptable by politicians but tomorrow [the media] will write something that perhaps the government does not like as well. They might find themselves stripped naked, checked, dehumanised, pushed around in solitary confinements and they say ‘what? I just wrote a story”.

As one of the victims of Trudeau's government crackdown on Freedom Convoy 2022, Pawlowski was arrested on 7th February 2022 a week after his speech at Smugglers Saloon in Coutts, where protesters against Covid mandates had been blocking travel to the United States.

His release on 30th March 2022 involved a cash deposit of $25,000, a requirement of sureties from his wife and his son that they would watch over Pastor Pawlowski to respect the curfew and not attend protests.

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