Counterproductive cultural report incarceration carnage

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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