Now that is a justifiable sentence!!!

[stevedee]

I propose the $1.50 bullet in the head solution, much less than the $50,000plus per annum it costs for the next few years.

[Ixion]

I propose the $1.50 bullet in the head solution, much less than the $50,000plus per annum it costs for the next few years.

That's a cheap bullet, where do you get your ammo ?

[MSTRS:Me]

I propose the $1.50 bullet in the head solution, much less than the $50,000plus per annum it costs for the next few years.

aka 9mm haemorage. Bit drastic for a license scam tho.
Edit :slap: wrong thread. As you were

[Marmoot]

I propose 50 years doing slave labour so that they can pay for the cost of the jails. Maybe making NZ T-shirts for tourist or somthing like that.

That's what they do in 3rd world countries, and also in America.
Not slave-labour, but at least it helps the jail system to support itself even if only partially.

It would mean goverment "subsidizing the jail system, instead of giving crims paid-holiday".

I totally support that. Heck, I totally support you!
When is your presidential candidacy?

[Fart]

I totally support that. Heck, I totally support you!
When is your presidential candidacy?

If G W Bush can become president, heck even my English Bulldog can have a chance of the presidency. Bring it on.

[Pixie]

New Zealand has one of this highest incarceration rates in the developed world. I don't think that locking people up is an answer in itself. We also tend to lock folks up for unreasonably long times for crimes against or involving property, and for comparatively short time for crimes against people. But then that's just a generalisation.

And all generalisations are false (including this one).

Lynch 'em then

[Ramius]

New Zealand has one of this highest incarceration rates in the developed world. I don't think that locking people up is an answer in itself. We also tend to lock folks up for unreasonably long times for crimes against or involving property, and for comparatively short time for crimes against people. But then that's just a generalisation.

And all generalisations are false (including this one).

Is it more to the point though, that the sentences are so light that the criminals become recidivist offenders and continually go to jail, hence giving the statistic of high incarceration rates? In America, the key is, well, there is no key, because once you are in, they throw it away...

[Hitcher]

Is it more to the point though, that the sentences are so light that the criminals become recidivist offenders and continually go to jail, hence giving the statistic of high incarceration rates? In America, the key is, well, there is no key, because once you are in, they throw it away...

There may be some truth in what you say...