Scrapped cultural reports won’t save taxpayer dollars – officials
Government officials have warned scrapping legal aid funding for section 27 cultural reports will end up costing the taxpayer more, with justice experts adding the workarounds will also take up more court time
What we are seeing now is right wing ‘feelings’ being rammed through Parliament misusing urgency with no checks and balances dictating social policy no matter how counter productive the ‘feeling’.
Neato!
The ultimate obligation of us as citizens, is that even when confronted with vile feral humans doing vile feral shit, we must force ourselves towards justice, not vengeance.
Look, if someone hurt my family or friends, I’d want 5 minutes alone with that person and a baseball bat, I get that terrible harm inflicted on innocent people drives a thirst for righteous revenge, and I acknowledge that, but we are talking about actual social policy here and because of the overwhelming power of the State over the individual in a prison environment, we must demand checks and balances and quantifiable outcomes over a thirst for vengeance.
Remember – the prisoner losing their liberty IS the punishment, making prisoners suffer additionally to that punishment is a recipe for social disaster and that’s why we see a 70% re-offense rate within 2 years of prison release!
We don’t want people in prison because the greatest determinate of whether or not a person will go to prison – IS BEING SENT TO PRISON!
We want our Judges to pass justice, not revenge, and giving them more background understanding of the person they are judging plus the flexibility to focus on attempting to find a way for the prisoner to be punished by losing their liberty AND attempting to rehabilitate them so that violent criminality isn’t an ongoing feature of their character.
Judges having the much maligned ‘Cultural Reports’ is exactly the kind of background understanding we want from Judges so that mercy is what the Court is focused on. You can’t get Justice without using mercy, look our underfunded, over crowded, violent and corrupt prison system only manufactures men more damaged than when they went in!
We don’t allow any rehabilitation to any prisoner unless they admit their guilt – seeing as many of those prisoners are on remand and haven’t had their trial yet, why would they admit guilt?
National placed that rule so as to smear dog shit in the prisoners faces before they could gain access to rehabilitation, it was a needless cruelty and ‘respect my authritah’ big dick virtue signalling by National that has created a massive counter productive backlash that sees prisoners serve their entire sentence never admitting their guilt and getting no rehab.
Look you stupid sleepy hobbits, how about this.
You can lock these men up for as long as your frightened little hearts desire, but just remove the bullshit smearing dog shit into the prisoners face by making them admit their guilt, and just give them access to counselling and rehab services immediately so that there is the thinnest chance that the counselling and rehab might actually have an impact so that when they are released they are far less likely to create more violence.
Why won’t you stupid sleepy hobbits just make that tiny, tiny, tiny change and actually try and heal these broken men in prison or is the truth that you want them to suffer with rehabilitation a cloak you use to mask your sadism?
We want our Judges to have these culture reports because it gives more insight into the Prisoner and whether mercy is worth an attempt, blinding these judges and forcing them to lock men up and throw away the key will not work, and you should all be honest enough to admit it.
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The cultural reports were just the excuse needed by our ‘catch snd release’ Justice system for turnstile sentencing.
You would love the US system. People are put in prison for decades for petty offences, and services such as schools, hospitals and libraries are cut to pay for police and prisons. Which is what your mates want to do here. Make people pay for their medication so we can build more prisons.
There is no Justice; only Mercy and Vengeance – Master Splinter
The commentors here love locking up brown people, or the police just killing them without trial. Especially Anker — Which is an anagram for Karen. Its always white women’s tears that gets blacks hanged from lampposts.
Bitter millsy. ‘The commenters here have been mixing up brown people’ in the USA with what happens in this country. Let us look at ourselves closely and fairly, while of course being aware of other nations, but don’t start taking on their wrongdoings as ours thank you very much.
Those pics of Cmore kicking the box of brown people standing on looking ova the fence without doubt gives ACT & bigoted pakeha supporters a nostalgic nineteenth century remanence back to the Victorian superiority of european exceptionalism times when killing a Maori was an instance thought without hesitation nor moral implication of such an act.
Culture reports are/were a rort!
Good riddance.
The mindset behind the people who become prisoners and then? Listening to Billy Joel and Allentown – the hopelessness of it all. I think it says something that fits here.
“Allentown”
Well we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we’re living here in Allentown…
Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we’re waiting here in Allentown
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw a…. flag in our face
Well I’m living here in Allentown
And it’s hard to keep a good man down
But I won’t be getting up today…
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billyjoel/allentown.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jbdIRHRPHE
Gravy train rorting money for lawyers and victim parasites.