
Why jailing is failing South Australia
Imprisonment is an expensive, increasingly ineffective default response which perpetuates a cycle of reoffending and it’s time to consider alternatives, argues Chris Sumner and Robert Hill.
Imprisonment is an expensive, increasingly ineffective default response which perpetuates a cycle of reoffending and it’s time to consider alternatives, argues Chris Sumner and Robert Hill.
A group of prominent South Australians including former senior judges and politicians across the party divide has called on the Malinauskas Government to embark on major reform of the state’s prison system.
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A State Government plan to hand half of any compensation given to prisoners injured in jail to the Victims of Crime Fund – even if the crime had no “victim” – has been labelled “unjust”, with claims the well-stocked fund is already tight-fisted in handing out money.
WikiLeaks has “grave concerns” about founder Julian Assange after he was moved to a medical ward in jail.