The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.
The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.
My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.