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Corrections
from Deborah Luskins' commentary on Vermont Public Radio:
The population of Vermont has grown only ten percent in the last twenty years, and violent crime in that same period has dropped by thirty percent. But during these same years Vermont's prison population has swelled, and the cost of incarceration has skyrocketed. In these twenty years, Vermont has created more prison beds - and filled them - and still has to send some offenders out of state.
Jun 25, 2010 Policy, Politics, Region: North America and Caribbean, Country:USA
Punishing costs: How locking up children is making Britain less safe
from the report published by NEF (The New Economics Foundation):
There are also alternative approaches to justice that address minor offending more effectively than the traditional criminal justice system. Practices of restorative or community justice are based on the offenders accepting personal responsibility and repairing the damage they have done, instead of merely receiving punishment. These forms of justice also involve the victims and the wider community in the process, creating a new way of engaging people with the justice system.
Jun 10, 2010 Policy, Politics, Country:England&Wales
Three strikes: A blot on our judicial landscape
from the article by Kim Workman:
The passing into law of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill (the three strikes legislation) last week, was a milestone of a kind – it marked the passing into law of arguably the worst piece of criminal justice legislation in New Zealand history.
While the legislation is a shocker, the way in which it was managed through the legislation process is a case study in political manipulation of the democratic process, lending weight to Lord Acton’s famous words, “All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Jun 07, 2010 Politics, Country:New Zealand, Region: Pacific, Correspondent:Kim Workman
Three strikes 'means nothing to lose'
from Paul Easton's article in The Dominion Post:
He has visited more than 1000 jails but Rimutaka Prison's container cells were a first for a visiting expert, who says locking up criminals for life will spark violence.
The Prison Fellowship International president Ronald Nikkel, from Canada, was in Wellington this week, after the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act, or "three strikes" law, was passed.
Jun 02, 2010 Politics, Country:New Zealand, Region: Pacific
