Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in a minimum-security institution by now or he would be living in the community.

That's the real shame. Society is not well-served by sending a convict to a penitentiary who needs mental-health care.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, some are in jail or prison for robbing or murdering somebody. So if they're here to help us, I'm thankful for that.

The system is broke. Cases like this make the Correctional Service of Canada look really terrible.

There's no adequate treatment for him (at such a facility). That's just a jail disguised as a hospital. In a penitentiary, all you have to do is behave yourself . . .and you have to be released.