Oh, neither.
They are just a very reliable money making schemes, that treats drug addicts and the mentally ill as if a prison sentence could ever actually cure them! On a flat world, maybe?
Instead of turning out hardened criminals, or the mentally ill even more paranoid and ill than before, we need to treat people with a MEDICAL problem as patients.
If we want to turn them into yet another privatized money making scheme, then why not turn them over to our other wealthy mates, who own private hospitals.
And given the often staggering cost/profit margins of PRIVATE medicine, we could make 2-300 dollars a day, from each patient; and there has to also be a scheme, where we can also cream some of the profits, from overpriced medicinal drugs; and or, medicare?
Rhrosty.

what has Jill Meaghers husband got ot say about this? How many rehabilitation programs had he done in previous laggings? No amount of education changes corrupt hearts.

...Evidence suggests that those with the power over the prison institution, politicians, are the individuals most likely to feel the heat from the public backlash of crime: Barry O’Farrell’s grilling on TV today, following another overnight shooting, adding itself to an ever-growing list of unsolved Sydney gun crimes, is a fresh example.

...The Premier is not responsible for such high profile crimes, but he surely looked as stressed as should be the criminal element presently pursued by a relentless police force in Sydney. Barry O’Farrell and Campbell Newman now join forces on the border of NSW and Queensland in a vain attempt to control (but one) group of criminals, the outlawed bikie gangs.

...At his press conference this morning, Barry O’Farrell, (with his Police Minister), continued to mount appeals to the community to “squeal” to the police and dob-in their family members, who may be associated with criminal gangs responsible for shooting attacks in the suburbs of Sydney.

...The more severe the laws aimed at such groups in the community, the greater the silence! Most thinking people could recognise the need for silence, with a consequence to laws which will (as effectively as a death warrant), eliminate forever a particular member of the family, if members of that family inform on each other, but not the two Premiers apparently; the State Governments continue down an increasingly draconian path of longer jail sentences applicable increasingly to the lesser and the more minor crime of association with criminal elements, and of dealing in weapons, with sentences almost paralleling the actual crime of firing the illegal weapon.

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…Using the Prison system as a sledge hammer to crack a nut, not only contravenes civil liberties for the community it is intended to protect, but misunderstands the type of criminal it targets. The evidence is huge, suggesting these reckless criminal elements begin their lives as underdogs in society; this is the point at which to attack such crimes…before they begin: The horse has bolted and no Prison sentence will mitigate the wrong done to society by social neglect and the disenfranchising of swathes of the unemployed and uneducated.

…My ear is close to the ground here, and I will guarantee that for every gun going bang in the night, there are a thousand in the boots of cars and secreted away in hiding places beyond detection, that are silent for the moment! These are “Life-Style” crimes that we are witnessing, and the proponents are the “ordinary” restless youths of the Western Suburbs.

…Draconian Jail sentences are simply another lazy and cowardly political attack on the poor, who are becoming more restless with neglect.

Not one murderer or rapist that was executed ever committed another crime, the death sentence works.

Dear Adam.

One of the reasons why I am not a criminal is because I don't want to get caught and end up in prison.