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Thinking Outside the Cell
Defined Terms
Baker's Dozen Problems
Articles & Reports - Bibliography
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Reasons and
Issues that prompted a retired banker to research and write the
Discussion Paper
Seeking the Death Penalty
for One, Two or
perhaps Three
(on average) of the most
Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous, Premeditated, Unprovoked Murderers annually that would currently
be
Sentenced to Penal Servitude is a minor facet
of the recommendations in
the
Discussion Paper
to reduce Australia's
prisons population
Philip Johnston worked
for one of the Four Pillar banks for 37 years, 10½ years of which he attended night
lectures/tutorials to study finance at Macquarie Uni. The final qualification
he attained is a
Masters in Applied Finance. During the latter part, he sought to limit lending
his employer bank’s
millions to infrastructure projects that were likely to return a profit.
His entire interest in the
Criminal
Justice System is to -
a) materially reduce criminal activity
(across
Level 1 to Level 6 of the
Penalty Scale);
b)
reduce inmate numbers in prisons -
43,028 adult prisoners in jails across Australia as at 30 June 2019; and
c) thereby manifestly decrease
the
$18.431b expended on Australia's Justice Sector in 2018-19, in
particular the
$4.416b net operating annual expenditure on Corrective Services in 2018-19
- a real
increase of
35%
from five years earlier
in 2012-13.
The primary form of
Punishment
and
Deterrent
for
Level 6 to Level 1 criminal offences
(listed under 'Sample Offences' in
Penalty
Scale) is currently a
Sentence of jail
incarceration -
Warehousing
the Problem.
Lengthy jail incarceration for
Level 4 to some Level 1
criminal offences is -
I. counter-productive to
Rehabilitation
for the 98.5% circa of the
43,028 inmates that were incarcerated in Australia's
state and territory prisons at 30 June 2019
that
are capable of being
Rehabilitated; and
II. not
crime Deterrent-effective
expenditure of the
Public Purse
because -
A.
there were 142 murders in the 12
months to 30 June 2018; and
B.
46.4%
of prisoners released during 2016-17 from a prison in Australia returned to
prison within two years (to 2018-19).
Australians that know a thing or two about Australian prisons'
effectiveness, regard a Sentence of jail incarceration as entering the
Revolving Door.
The Australian public,
the voters in any referendum, have no idea that the –
A. per inmate
cost of
Maximum Security Incarceration
is $175k pa. nor that
2,088 inmates were serving a Sentence of
'20 years and over', or ‘Other, or a
'Life Sentence' as at 30 June ‘19;
or
B. average cost
of Sentencing a convicted murderer to
Life Without Parole
in Australia is
a smidgeon over $7 million -
$7,000,559;
or
C. the
projected cost to imprison Anita Cobby’s five murderers in
Maximum Security
Incarceration until all five have died in jail is $42.525 million circa
(the offenders were younger than the mean age for the 76
heinous murderers profiled in
Section B).
Conventionally, the only Australians that have taken an interest in
the massive annual cost of
Corrective Services
($4.416 billion in 2017-18)
are those that earn their living from that industry sector, or
others seeking to get a piece of that giant pie.
Two Not-For-Profits
associated with the
Criminal
Justice System
profess to be a communication "facilitator" amongst
-
*
"professionals, practitioners,
academics and students";
or
* "a
voluntary association of individuals, departments and organisations representing
a wide cross section of interests and disciplines, including branches of the
criminal justice system, courts, police, corrections, prisons, mental health
services, criminology and ethnic minority groups.",
to enable development of the
Criminal
Justice System.
However, when the Writer approached each of them, these two
Not-For-Profits
appear to have forgotten their respective charters.
Prima facie, some providers to the 'System' are
Comfy
Riding
on the Gravy Train, cautious
not to
Upset the Applecart or Rock the Boat, because the
Gravy Train is money-making
for the
Providers.
Below are the number of executions in Australian
states during the 20th Century:
1900 to 1909 - 55
1910 to 1919 - 26
1920 to 1929 - 14
1930 to 1939 - 12
1940 to 1949 - 5
1950 to 1959 - 10
1960 to 1969 - 6
A. Capital Punishment Deters Homicides
that means few people are murdered annually.
B. Capital
Punishment is more humane and civilized than
Life without parole.
C.. Capital Punishment
is Sentenced in many of the largest countries,
including
two Commonwealth of Nations countries in South-East Asia,
and
also
Japan
that executed 15 convicted murderers in 2018.
In 1986 NSW
(then) Opposition Leader, Nick Greiner, presented petitions to the then Premier,
Nifty Nev, signed by 10,000 western suburbs citizens demanding the death
penalty for the Cobby killers.
Rationale for seeking the Death Penalty to be Sentenced
to an average of two heinous, callous murderers annually is not
limited to -
a)
provide an effective
Deterrent
to future
Keith Owen Goodbun's muttering to
his daughter as he shot his wife,
“I can go to jail for 30 f---ing years and get a bed and breakfast
every day.”
Goodbun told detectives during his police interview “I
know where I'm going. And I'm quite f---ing happy about it, I tell you, quite
happy about it.";
b) reduce annual Murders committed, that
also includes
Femicide and Filicide
deaths annually -
In the 29 years from June 1990 to June 2018 there
were 8,126 reported incidents of homicide in Australia at an average rate of 280
homicides annually
c)
reduce the
Baker's Dozen Unsustainable Problems Within the Australian
Prison System, one of which is that
Many Prisons Are At Breaking Point With Associated Problems;
d)
reduce Australia’s whacko
Recidivism/re-offending
rates
because
Australians that know a thing or two about
Australia's prisons effectiveness regard a Sentence of jail incarceration as
entering the Revolving Door;
and
e) save the
Public Purse
the average cost per inmate ($7,000,559)
of One, Two or
perhaps Three convicted murderers that
should be Sentenced
annually to Capital Punishment.
The heinous murders,
and the unfortunate victims,
detailed in
Section B
evidence that
criminal court judges should
again have the power to Sentence the Death
Penalty for the most
Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous, Often Unprovoked Crimes, as they did until the middle of
the last century – 70 years ago – when Australia did not endure the
Baker's Dozen Unsustainable Problems Within the Australian
Prison System.
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