“It would be a monumental injustice to remove children who come into contact with the criminal justice system families, support networks, community and country in central Australia,” Dr Sotiri said.
A injustice says the academic!!!!!! Good Job! Crapping Your Pants About Going To Jail works with most people!
How much does Dr Sotiri know about the real problems in the NT and what ideas does she have for resolving those problems? All of these armchair critics from academia achieve is complication and compounding of problems that are due to people not taking responsibility for their own lives. No amount of money will fix attitudes and money for doing nothing may be a major contributing factor
These educated experts know it all except how to fix the problem. Do the crime do, the time so if more lock ups are needed build them. Obviously not a good solution but no one has come up with anything realistic.
Dr Sotiri and her accolytes in NAAJA, etc, ignore the fact that all their rehabilitation initiatives fail, and are only interested in how much they can scam from the taxpayer. Build a new prison in a remote location, and make the scum suffer like their victims.
Advice from keyboard/armchair warriors is never ending. The numbers of those commiting crimes is on the up – never an end in sight. THE PROBLEM IS NOW. The problem is to house incarcerated people NOW. The programs come after these criminals are locked up. This takes time which none of the would-be warriors/experts acknowledge. It would be helpful if the parents/families of the younger criminals stepped up and did the hard yards of actually caring and nurturing their children. They (the adults) need to learn to love and to quit using these young people to steal to enhance their self absorbed lifestyle. And how many actually visit their family in jail? Jailing on country has not increased visitation so do they really care where their young people are? So come on – all you academic, multi letters after your names – stop talking of what should be and COME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO NOW. Better still, how about housing some of them at your place NOW to ease the pressure on jail time. This will be a real life opportunity to put your words into action NOW.
With the facilities and resources available here and now, the CLP has kept its promise the electorate. Full kudos to the CLP, and shame on the academics, social scientists and ALP/Green ideologues who have presided over 8 years of accelerating crime.
Now is the time to review what has been achieved and what has failed, and rebuild for the future.
The last time I looked, it cost $90,000 per year to house and feed a prison inmate, most of whom became recidivists. But corrupt and hopelessly out of touch parole boards inject them back into the community and so crime events happen all over again. Ergo, prisons are only a temporary solution.
Most prisoners cannot be rehabilitated because they have no work experience and nor do they have any money to launch new and productive lives upon release. The essential crime prevention measure must resolve both of these issues.
However, if all inmates are given genuine work experience, and paid fair award wages in exchange, this resolves both issues. The most outstanding need for unskilled labour currently is ridding the Territory of noxious weeds, and in particular, Mimosa Pigra, water hyacinth, and Zamba.
The cost of board can be deducted and the inmate guided to use his accumulated wages wisely to launch a new and honest life, not forced to steal to survive as at present, As a bonus, we cease to pay prison costs and get rid of the weeds. Very few of the newly experienced workers would ever want to return; and work camps security is both cheap and easy with modern electronics.
“It would be a monumental injustice to remove children who come into contact with the criminal justice system families, support networks, community and country in central Australia,” Dr Sotiri said.
A injustice says the academic!!!!!!
Good Job! Crapping Your Pants About Going To Jail works with most people!
How much does Dr Sotiri know about the real problems in the NT and what ideas does she have for resolving those problems? All of these armchair critics from academia achieve is complication and compounding of problems that are due to people not taking responsibility for their own lives. No amount of money will fix attitudes and money for doing nothing may be a major contributing factor
These educated experts know it all except how to fix the problem. Do the crime do, the time so if more lock ups are needed build them. Obviously not a good solution but no one has come up with anything realistic.
Dr Sotiri and her accolytes in NAAJA, etc, ignore the fact that all their rehabilitation initiatives fail, and are only interested in how much they can scam from the taxpayer. Build a new prison in a remote location, and make the scum suffer like their victims.
Rack em, stack em and lock them down. We need to be planning for a 5000 bed facility.
If we build it they will come.
Advice from keyboard/armchair warriors is never ending. The numbers of those commiting crimes is on the up – never an end in sight. THE PROBLEM IS NOW. The problem is to house incarcerated people NOW. The programs come after these criminals are locked up. This takes time which none of the would-be warriors/experts acknowledge. It would be helpful if the parents/families of the younger criminals stepped up and did the hard yards of actually caring and nurturing their children. They (the adults) need to learn to love and to quit using these young people to steal to enhance their self absorbed lifestyle. And how many actually visit their family in jail? Jailing on country has not increased visitation so do they really care where their young people are? So come on – all you academic, multi letters after your names – stop talking of what should be and COME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO NOW. Better still, how about housing some of them at your place NOW to ease the pressure on jail time. This will be a real life opportunity to put your words into action NOW.
With the facilities and resources available here and now, the CLP has kept its promise the electorate. Full kudos to the CLP, and shame on the academics, social scientists and ALP/Green ideologues who have presided over 8 years of accelerating crime.
Now is the time to review what has been achieved and what has failed, and rebuild for the future.
The last time I looked, it cost $90,000 per year to house and feed a prison inmate, most of whom became recidivists. But corrupt and hopelessly out of touch parole boards inject them back into the community and so crime events happen all over again. Ergo, prisons are only a temporary solution.
Most prisoners cannot be rehabilitated because they have no work experience and nor do they have any money to launch new and productive lives upon release. The essential crime prevention measure must resolve both of these issues.
However, if all inmates are given genuine work experience, and paid fair award wages in exchange, this resolves both issues. The most outstanding need for unskilled labour currently is ridding the Territory of noxious weeds, and in particular, Mimosa Pigra, water hyacinth, and Zamba.
The cost of board can be deducted and the inmate guided to use his accumulated wages wisely to launch a new and honest life, not forced to steal to survive as at present, As a bonus, we cease to pay prison costs and get rid of the weeds. Very few of the newly experienced workers would ever want to return; and work camps security is both cheap and easy with modern electronics.