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Defined Terms
Baker's Dozen Problems
Articles & Reports - Bibliography
Petition
2.
Prison incarceration causes way more problems than it solves and is a failed and costly
"...prevention."
The
Bakers Dozen Unsustainable Problems render jail incarceration an
impotent and costly
Punishment and an
ineffective
Deterrent.
Alas, 99%
circa of Australians
(beyond their teenage years) lack the attention span necessary to read and comprehend the
Bakers Dozen Unsustainable Problems
chronicled herein.
If more Australians possessed the capacity to Read, Comprehend and Respond,
our State and Territory Govts. would not be continuing
to pour $19.651 billion dollars annually
into the Total Justice Sector, of which the vast majority namely $5.091b (2019-20) under the category of Corrective Services
being expended on housing over 41,000
inmates in tiny steel cages
across
112 custodial facilities at
The University Of Crime.
In
theory, inmates should have paid the price of their crime
and leave jail intent upon re-joining the workforce.
But in
practice over 50% of
inmates released from The University Of Crime
at Australia's state and territory prisons, return to prison within 2˝ years,
largely due to the loss of life sustaining skills that inmates are often confronted
by upon
release from
a highly institutionalised environment, namely
“institutionalised
personality traits”, including “distrusting others, difficulty engaging in
relationships [and] hampered decision-making”.
In
2020-21,
53.1 percent of released prisoners had returned to corrective services within
two years (either prison or community corrections).
Annexure H
lists four
Australian State and Territories Social Services that have been underfunded amidst COVID-19
partially due to the Australia's burdensome reliance on
prison incarceration, with its
Rapidly Revolving Door,
crippled by its
Bakers' Dozen Unsustainable Problems,
that evaporates way too much of
Public
Purses
annually.
The
Marshall Project reports that most
Lifers deemed never to be released are
dying
a thousand deaths; experiencing a manic depressive QOL.
Below is an extract from
a Newcastle Herald article
"Keith Owen Goodbun pleaded guilty (on 22 Nov
2018) to murdering
estranged wife, Molly Goodbun, at Horseshoe Bend on 7 Oct 2016":
“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.”
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