Hi Is Mise,

The problems with such sorts of prisoners, who not only have committed the most vile crimes but have no remorse about them and are quite intent on influencing as many other people as possible, is that they would have to be jailed for life, AND they would have to be on complete isolation from each other and from anybody else.

Of course, some of my close colleagues on the pseudo-Left might disagree since, after all, these poor boys have had difficult upbringings, they are misunderstood by their mothers and have been led astray, they're all good boys really, and therefore they deserve both light sentences and another chance, and shouldn't be deprived of close contact with as many people as possible. Anyway it's the Murdoch press which has been hounding them, and what for ? For nothing ! But I respectfully beg to differ.

Putting that objection aside, what does any authority do with vile criminals who have to be jailed for life, in strict solitary confinement ? Where to put them ? Not in converted classrooms, Is Mise, but in single-accommodation corrugated iron sheds, with the basics: a bed, a tap with bore water for washing and drinking, and, well, not much else really. And somewhere out in the deserts . So why not Oodnadatta or Betoota, and as you say, fly-in, fly-out staff, under strict instructions (perhaps working in twos) never to speak to the criminals ?

Problem solved !

Cheers,

Joe