Despite the best efforts to demonize the last government there were calls from the left to decommission older corrections facilities. 

 Many find it ironic how the left was then critical of the last government for focusing on modernizing and humanizing these old corrections facilities with better facilities to better rehabilitate convicts.

Everyone incorrectly claimed Harper was only wanting to build more jails to incarcerate more people and stats are showing violence in pens has dropped significantly because of his initiative.