2nd Letter to Executive Producers dated 5 June 2018 Proposed Four Corners programme that explores re-introducing Corporal and Capital punishment
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Executive Producers
Four Corners
Refer: Sam
Lipski
and Robert
Raymond
ABC Ultimo Centre
700 Harris Street
Ultimo NSW 2007
Dear Sam and Robert - (click on any of the embedded URLs in blue text)
In Nov. 2012, the Commonwealth Senate commissioned a Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee ("LCARC") to prepare a report on the 'criminal justice system' which costs the Australian taxpayer $16 billion annually and ".... is quickly becoming unsustainable".
Below is an extract from Chapter 3 of the LCARC report titled 'Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia' dated June 2013:
3.31 The increase in prisoner numbers is putting financial strain on the Australian justice system, which is quickly becoming unsustainable. Released prisoners are
finding it difficult to find work and are facing multiple barriers to reintegrating with society. In addition, the removal of an individual from a community or family can
have long lasting effects, as well as increasing financial burden. Due to the overcrowding of prisons, prisoner health is deteriorating and those health issues are
being transferred to society with the release of prisoners. Governments need to address the long term economic and social costs of imprisonment to prevent further
development of intergenerational offending, and occurrences of recidivism.
Australia's Criminal Justice Costs: An International Comparison -
April 2017 prepared by Andrew Bushnell, Institute of Public Affairs reported:A. Australia spends an estimated $16 billion a year on our criminal justice system (police services, courts and correctional services/prisons).
B. There are now 36,000 inmates in Australia's prisons, up 39 per cent from a decade ago - the prison system costs the Australian taxpayer $4 billion annually.
C. Australia's $4 billion annual prison system has created a "class of persistent criminals":
58 percent of prisoners have been imprisoned before
44.6 percent of prisoners released during 2013-14 returned to prison within two years (up from 39.5 percent five years ago)
52.6 percent of prisoners released during 2013-14 returned to corrective services within two years
Below is an extract from No. 3 'Capital punishment' produced by the AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY:
"Public Opinion Polls
Although Australia has abandoned capital punishment, it does not follow that it could never be reintroduced. Nor does it mean that it cannot be imposed on Australians travelling overseas, as illustrated by the double execution of Barlow and Chambers who were hanged in Malaysia on 7 July 1986 for drug trafficking.
Whenever a particularly vicious crime is committed, members of the public, police, politicians and the press ‘reopen’ the debate on the death penalty.
Below is an article published in the SMH on 7 May 2018 light on detail, yet it generated 275 Comments:
'20,000 lashes for murder': Liberal Party branch to debate proposal for corporal punishment
It prompted me to research the pros and cons of a punishment deterrent system that has served almost 100 billion Homo sapiens for over hundred thousand years.
Should the ABC, or a television production company, wish to 'produce' a documentary based on some of the information gathered in this DVD or USB Flash Drive, it would pay Philip Johnston a Peppercorn Fee of $1 to purchase the R&D 'in toto' contained herein.
Yours sincerely
Phil Johnston aka Bank Teller