YOUR two correspondents this week replying to my letter on prisons, seem hell-bent on punishment of offenders, three strikes and life, admitting that this would require more prisons.
Pandora Beads Wholesale We already have more prisons per population than any western country except the United States, three times the number of Finland.
The US, which they hold up as a model, has more prisoners than China and India combined; more than 2 million.
The two correspondents name only two of the worst criminals. There are thousands of others, many of whom I know, write to or visit on release.
They are human beings.
Your correspondents seem to want to lock them up and throw away the key.
Prisons are now called correctional facilities.
This is human.
pandora charms I would like the Government to go further and address the causes of crime - dysfunctional families, drugs and alcohol.
Chanel Replica Handbags It is estimated that the annual cost of alcohol misuse is now $5 billion a year.
Some 31 per cent of offences involve alcohol, including domestic violence, child abuse, vicious assault, manslaughter and murder.
In November a group of health professionals from all over New Zealand proposed to the Law Commission the following: raise alcohol prices; raise the purchase age; reduce alcohol accessibility; reduce marketing and advertising; increase drink- driving counter measures and treatment opportunities for heavy drinkers.
Tom Keyes, Gore.
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