Jail time increases up to 60%

The report of the Judicial commission of NSW revealed that there would have been increases up to 60 pr cent in the length of sentences. It also indicated that the introduction of standard non-parole periods had increased the guilty plea rate for relevent crimes from 78.2 per cent to 86.1 per cent. The findings of the study has shown that the sentencing scheme has resulted in a huge conformity of sentencing outcomes. Lawyers and civil libertarians have condemned the increase in sentences, accusing it as a means of bringing consistency to sentencing when they had actually led to tougher sentences for many of the crimes.

PERSONAL REFLECTION

Having said that it would be a good means of detering the criminals through prolonging the length of sentences but, more importantly, to what extent this law would not be an unjust treatment to many of people who might face it now or in the future??

Six on the run after scaping from Villawood

Sydney Morning Herald

May 25,2010

Police is chasing six asylum seekers who scaped from the Villawood immigration detention centre in Sydney. A police spoksman said nine detainees had scaped the high-security centre and three of them had been captured. This centre is run by UK-based security firm Sero. A spoksman from immigration department maintained that "we will work effectively and review all the procedures that is currently in place.

MY PERSONAL REFLECTION

The government is not taking any urgent step to process thousands of asylum seekers' applications who were being kept semi freezed for years if not more, therefore it gives the syylum seekers a solid pretext to riot or adopting illegal movements leading to furthur complications in this regard like what happened to one of those detention centre.