NEWS
TRUE OPINION: JUSTICE FOR SALE! The Real Costs of Going to Jail
The Victorian Government has announced it will spend $345 million over three years on almost 500 new cells to deal with the state’s overcrowded jail system and increasing prison population. True Crime News Weekly correspondent Gary Johnston wonders whether throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into a failed system is a wise move.
MEDIA & POLITICS
TABLOID HYPOCRITE! A Current Affair reporter who ‘chased paedophiles’ on tv arrested for child porn
He was the “star” tabloid reporter who appeared regularly on television screens and was known to audiences for having “doggedly pursued child sex offenders”. But A Current Affair reporter, Ben McCormack, now finds himself right alongside the perps he once chased with camera in tow having been arrested over child abuse material.
What a terrible indictment on Australia that we jail such young children when we claim as a country to be a modern liberal democracy with fair treatment for all. There have been numerous inquiries into institutionalized abuse of children in care homes, but as a country we seem happy to keep imprisoning them. Thank you for this important article on a subject the media rarely reports on.
So we have children as young as 10 going to jail, and now Benito Dutton wants laws allowing the questioning of 14 year olds on their own by ASIO officers. That is a breach of their human rights, the Rights of the Child.