Charter madness

It's stuff like this that really makes me angry.

In Canada, if you're a prison guard, you can be stabbed, pricked with a syringe, or spat on by a prisoner, but if you want to find out if that prisoner is infected with a life-threatening illness such as AIDS or Hepatitis C, you run right up against their Charter rights which prevent you from finding out if your attacker may have potentially passed along a deadly disease. Instead, you and your family have to anxiously wait and find out through other means if you have been exposed.

Is it any wonder that Canadians often feel as though offenders and lawbreakers have more rights than they should?