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20 March 2019

Senator Derryn Hinch                                info@justicepartyvic.com.au

Justice Party
Box 33018
Domain LPO
Melbourne  VIC  3004
 

Dear Senator Hinch

Will the Justice Party facilitate Australians with some understanding of the Criminal Justice System that want the following three adverse consequences et al reduced -

A.      read the Writer's Discussion Paper Thinking Outside the Cell (either on a DVD in a DVD Case or on a USB Stick Flash Drive); and

B.      complete the Peer Review Form (Word document) and email it to the Justice Party?

1.            Baker's Dozen Unsustainable Problems Within Australian Prison System

2.            Femicide and Filicide murders in Australia annually

3.            Exceedingly high annual recidivism/re-offending rates in Australia

The Writer supports your comments in -

A.       Last man hanged: 50 years in Australia without an execution - BBC News; and

B.       Changing your mind: The living donor regarding re-introducing Capital Punishment for Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous Unprovoked Crimes where evidence of guilt is Beyond Any Doubt.  However, he does not agree that Capital Punishment ".....will not be reinstated in this country in the next 20 years. If ever. "

Invariably, the problem with national referendums, Brexit is an archetypal example, is that all pertinent costs and benefits (changes/outcomes/ramifications) are not provided to the people asked to vote on a referendum issue, because the Govt' announcing the referendum have little understanding of the consequences.  The Writer's  Discussion Paper presents ALL PERTINENT COSTS AND BENEFITS to re-introduce both Corporal Punishment and Capital Punishment under specified circumstances. 

The Writer, Philip Johnston, retired 13 years ago after a long career at one of the Four Pillar banks where, in the latter part, he administered as ‘Agent bank’ many large infrastructure projects (e.g. purchase of Sydney Airport and Brisbane Airports post-privatization, construction of Sydney Harbour Tunnel, construction of toll roads, gas pipelines, sewerage treatment plants, jail refurbs ‘et al’).   He attained a B.A. with a major in Economics and a Masters in Applied Finance - both from Macquarie University.

After reading, and filing in his Articles & Reports - Bibliography, over 180 papers, submissions, articles, reports, the Writer completed writing a Discussion Paper titled Thinking Outside the Cell (available on a DVD or USB Stick Flash Drive) that prosecutes the case to re-Sentence both -

A.       Corporal Punishment (in lieu of approx. 50% of existing prison Sentences) to Deter others from similarly transgressing for Suitable Male Criminals and for most Criminal Activities, except Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous, Unprovoked Murder; and

B.       Capital Punishment for a few of the Most Monstrous Convicted Murderers each year if found guilty Beyond any doubt of a Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous, Unprovoked Murder/s,

in order to -

(a)      reduce the magnitude of a Baker's Dozen Problems within the Australian prison system that are ostensibly due to -

           (i)     largely due to Inept performance by our duly elected policy/law makers to reduce/mitigate the Dozen Unsustainable Prison Problems; and

           (ii)    because 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 us all; and

(b)      'cut' the horrendous annual homicide rates ostensibly caused by domestic violence; and

(c)       free-up Australia's prison institutions for Rehabilitation, adopting the Restorative Justice Model Successfully Adopted in Scandinavia since the late 20th century, San Patrignano, Northern Italy and Texas Justice Reinvestment, in particular Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses with Specialist Drug & Alcohol Treatment to then incorporate Education and Vocational Training to instill self-belief and optimism due to the opportunity for a chance at a paid job, thereby expediting custodial release back into the community by utilising an Electronic Monitoring Device, as taxpayers, into an employed job for a minimum of three months offered by Supportive ASX 200 Companies.

Texas in the USA has recently reversed its massive expenditure on prisons due to Justice Reinvestment.   The Scandinavian countries have achieved success with Restorative Justice and do not experience the Baker's Dozen Problems to the same unsustainable extent as in the remainder of the USA states, the UK, Canada, Australia ‘et al’.  Four Gears of Early Rehabilitation and Release forecasts the material reduction in the current $4b cost circa of the Australian Prison System upon the Public Purse (by also re-introducing Capital Punishment) by replacing approx half of current Jail Sentences with a Swift, Frightening and a Painful Dose of Corporal Punishment for Non-Murderous Crimes and for Suitable Male Criminals. 

Baker's Dozen Unsustainable Problems is testimony that the more recent Warehouse Sentencing in some western countries, driven by Penal Populism, has failed Dozenly.  Over 50% of inmates released from Australian prisons in 2014 had returned to prison within three years. 

Logistics

A burnt DVD provides greater integrity than a USB Stick.  A DVD will auto-open (in a Windows operating system) at Discussion Paper by clicking at Windows pop ups on the RHS of their screen when prompted, whereupon the peer reviewer can readily open to the 'primary page' and click on multiple embedded threads therein.

110+ Defined Terms avoid uncertainty/misinterpretation. 180+ documents, reports, articles, discussion papers et al in Articles & Reports - Bibliography are linked with embedded threads.  In the vast majority of the 180+ files, the text from a downloaded PDF has been extracted and saved in a dedicated htm file.  Pertinent sections of text within those reports are background coloured.  The actual PDF of the primary source document/report/article is accessible by clicking on the initial thread at the top of the particular webpage.

None of those 180+ files have attempted what the Writer seeks to achieve, namely to present a Discussion Paper that sets out how to materially decrease the tangible and intangible costs/failings/weaknesses of Australia's Criminal Justice System, not limited to 1.  2. and 3. in the above 'title/heading', so that academics/practitioners that profess to have an understanding of Australia's Criminal Justice System, and are concerned about 1.  2. and 3. will -

A.        display requisite courage/concern to complete the Peer Review Form (Word document); and

B.        email their completed Form to the Justice Party. 

The Justice Party could publish Thinking Outside the Cell after it has measured at least three submitted/accepted Peer Review Forms, and also publish all 'accepted' (email submitted) Peer Review Forms as annexures to Thinking Outside the Cell.  Hence, worthwhile contributions by peer reviewers would be recognised and their comments/views available for consideration and 'Comment' on the Justice Party website by readers that have registered on the Justice Party website - in the same manner that financial contributors to the SMH can post a 'Comment', or tick an 'affirmative' to an existing 'Comment', at Comments below the pertinent newspaper article. 

It would be a simple 'web enhancement' task to enable readers to post their written 'Comments' on the Justice Party website under the prefix of their email address.  Accepted written 'Comments' would therefore be viewable by other readers. 

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