On 31 Aug 2000, at 0:41, Kasey Taylor wrote:
> How is it we can possibly give prisoners rights considering what they have
> most likely done to people and why they are in prison??? Why should we give
> them a chance to have a right when it is most likely their victims had
> theirs taken away from them?
>
"what they have MOST LIKELY done"
What have they done? You are guessing. Here, again are some figures:
Some 70% of people in prison are there for a drug related offence.
Some 68% of inmates in WA have not completed primary education.
2% on non-Aboriginal people that appear before the courts serve a custodial
sentence.
22% of Aboriginal kids get a custodial sentence.
80% of non-Aboriginal kids get optioned to a diversionary programme.
less than 10% of Aboriginal kids get offered a diversionary programme.
Only five years ago, of the about 400 Martu people in Wiluna, every man
woman and child, statistically, was imprisoned in the Wilunal lock-up six
times each year!
Nyoongar kids in WA carry the receipts for the clothes they wear because
some police stop them and demand proof that they are not thieves! Do some
research on the case of the professional surfer Kenny Dann from Geraldton,
its a rare case, because the Cop was sacked.
No such luck for the Pat family in WA in 1982. The police kicked their son
to death, and they were tried in the North West by an all white jury (John
Pats Peers?) and, surprise, found not guilty.
> We have to look after the victim and make the prisoner/offender responsible
> for their actions. They commit a crime, they should lose their rights to be
> a citizen for a while. Seems like a fair trade to me. And they should do the
> whole sentence, none of this "Let you out early because you've been good".
> It totally defeats the purpose.
>
Get some life experience of the Indigenous experience please. Also, please
recall that this nation was founded on a false premis, that imprisonment
(read transportation and whipping et al) fixed the problems of the
"alleged" guilty. My god, just on logic this nation should have the most
progressive penal processes in the world, but we are slow learners eh? It
did not work 200 years ago, and prison still does not work in remediation
of alleged deviant performance.
KC, just for starters, please read the 97 volumes of the Royal Commission
Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, then voice an informed opinion. In the
meantime browse to:
http://www.deathsincustody.com/
Tra,
Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.kultcher.com/ -- Jim Duffield
Did you hear about the Roman Catholic who asked his priest to call on him.
"What's the matter, my son?"
"Father," he said, "I'm dying."
"Oh, my word! I'm so sorry."
"That's okay, Father, I've come to terms with it. But I want to ask you
something. I want you to help me to convert to Protestantism."
"Whatever for?" asked the priest.
"Well, isn't it better that one of them dies instead of one of us?" ANON
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