NSW: Unpopular people will be forced to wear tracking devices at a cost of $5,000 dollars per unit because the NSW Department of Corrective Services failed to rehabilitate those offenders at a cost of $65,000 a year while they were held in custody for many years.Labelled most unpopular they will wear a tracking device to prevent them from entering 'prohibited zones' while released on parole.
The device uses satellite tracking to monitor 'ex'-offenders and would send a signal to 'police and parole officers' if the 'ex-offenders moved into designated exclusion zones or removed the bracelet.
The 'ex' offenders would be required to wear an electronic strap around their ankle or wrist and carry a box unit about the size of a large mobile phone.
The Fascist State Government is trialling the devices and has bought three units for $5000 each.
'Ex' offenders will wear them as part of their parole conditions - set by the new 'Parole Police Board'.
GKCNN reports: Dictator Bob Carr should have said..
The Parole Police Board would be able to order unpopular people to wear electronic bracelets or anklets and carry so-called STAR Unit!
The satellite technology would be used to track the 'ex'-offenders to within five metres of their location.
Anyone can become unpopular even a pest
[The technology] allows [the Department of Corrective Services] to throw off its responsibility of rehabilitating convicted offenders and instead, after long periods of warehousing and negative reinforcement, release them on a lead and make the community fund the draconian gadgets at a cost of $5,000 dollars per unpopular person and if they cast a wider net 'you could be wearing them' too!
Closely tracking the movements of the 'ex'-offender, effectively trapping the - ex-offender in an electronic bubble, Carr should have said... at a press conference today.
If you read the original article in the SMH you'll notice that Carr regarded the ex-offenders as offenders? Why? It's easy to sell the gadget if they are hated more - they are offenders that need to be tracked but not people who've served their sentence and should have received education and programs.
This is a dictator's device and will be widely used for unpopular people down the track. We must protect all citizens from draconian electronic surveillance at all material times, no matter how unpopular our 'Politicians' regard these people, from all walks of life.
Next thing they'll want to put them under your skin
Carr: "It's an extra protection for potential victims and it's one way of making parole conditions more effective.''
But this is a failure by the NSW Department of Corrective Services to rehabilitate offenders at $65,000 dollars per year.
Why should taxpayers pay an additional $5,000 per 'ex'-offender after their release on security of all things, not housing or a job, all because DCS failed over many years to rehabilitate them? That can only lead them straight back to prison!
An Alarm Should Sound in the Community!
Carr said an alarm would sound if and 'offender' approached an area they are banned from such as a school, child-care centre or victim's home.
Carr the dictator said the alarm would also sound if the offenders did not carry the STAR unit or tried to remove the anklet or bracelet.
But can you imagine being accidentally in the wrong place? And this alarm going off? That's just madness and could cause an alarm and affront, a heart attack or even a serious accident.
Injustice Minister John Hatzistergos would not speculate on how many people might be fitted with the devices? But he should have said it was a matter for the new Parole Police Board.
NSW Opposition spokesman on justice Andrew Tink wanted to say something but Tink you Stink and so does the Neo-Liberals, right around the county, we may as well vote for the Natzi party.
This [technology] encourages the failure of the Department of Corrective Services and hinges on the views of the new Parole Police Board.
Why We Oppose Home Detention
NSW: Justice Action opposes the use of Home Detention (HD). It damages the family and the home for others without any consideration of the effects, or acknowledgement of the costs. It discriminates by disproportionately effecting women. Families become prison guards to their loved ones, and the home becomes an extension of the State.
Sex Offenders:
Most child sex offenders are single time offenders.
The recidivism rate for sex offenders is about a quarter the general offender recidivism rate.
The majority of sex offenders are never reported, convicted or imprisoned anyway.
And the sex offender treatment programs they use in Australian prisons actually *increase* the risk of future sex offending, particularly violent offending. (the 'Treating Sex Offenders' powerpoint - pages labelled 'Negative Outcomes').
So, overall, the best policy might be to do the same with the small proportion of identified sex offenders as we do with the majority of those who aren't identified.
Just leave them alone. Or, you could try restorative justice programs that encourage them to admit the injury, trauma and damage they cause, undertake to identify and change the behaviour that led to the offence (e.g. alcohol use, misogynist attitudes, etc) and negotiate some form of restitution - either directly to their victim (who is probably a partner, [former] friend or family member) or to the community they come from.
But that wouldn't be anywhere near harsh enough for the law and order freaks now would it?
Better to inflict some horrendous punishment and permanent stigma that may turn the offender into a violent sociopath whose next offence will be far worse than the one they were originally convicted of.
Rockspiders: Police, Teachers, Childcare Owners, and Uncle Pervy!
Police have indicated there will be hundreds more arrests as part of Australia's largest ever crackdown on child pornography even though it is some of the police themselves? Authorities have so far charged more than 190 people with a total of 2000 offences and seized more than two million pornographic images.
By Just Us 26 May 05
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Today Sex offenders TOMMORROW YOU!
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Sir David Longland Correctional Centre
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Black Nexus
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Prison Mind Games-Do they exist?
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