Posted October 19th 2016 to the Dominion Post Newspaper Wellington NZ
Dom Post:
NZ is a country that in not in a war zone or has great cultural conflict so why on Earth do we have so many people in prison?
Prisons are suppose to be where we put the extremely small fraction of the population who are dangerous to others.
They are not mental hospitals nor are they time-out centers for people who are simply annoying.
The Tax Payer would be less burdened if we had some better way of finding work to keep annoying or unemployable people busy.
But Private enterprise is not going to step up because it is simply someone else's problem.
Our Government has the tools to fix this and they darn well should because the very high rates of incarceration in New Zealand spell out FAILURE in large
unmistakable letters over our whole political system.
It is hard to Fathom... But Texas is more progressive in this area than NZ is.
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It highlights the question that hangs over humanity what is the meaning of our existance.
amazing beings of wonder or just meat robots.
Dom Post:
NZ is a country that in not in a war zone or has great cultural conflict so why on Earth do we have so many people in prison?
Prisons are suppose to be where we put the extremely small fraction of the population who are dangerous to others.
They are not mental hospitals nor are they time-out centers for people who are simply annoying.
The Tax Payer would be less burdened if we had some better way of finding work to keep annoying or unemployable people busy.
But Private enterprise is not going to step up because it is simply someone else's problem.
Our Government has the tools to fix this and they darn well should because the very high rates of incarceration in New Zealand spell out FAILURE in large
unmistakable letters over our whole political system.
It is hard to Fathom... But Texas is more progressive in this area than NZ is.
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It highlights the question that hangs over humanity what is the meaning of our existance.
amazing beings of wonder or just meat robots.
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