(August 26, 2016 at 11:51 am)Rhythm Wrote: Australia has for profit prisons as well..........in fact, last I checked...you guys had a higher ratio of prisoners in for profit prisons than anyone else in the world.
Mexico has universal healthcare.
Yes you're right I should inform myself about these things fully. In my jurisdiction there is a human rights act, and there are no private prisons, in Vic (the only other jurisdiction with a human rights act in Australia) there are private prisons that would need to operate under it, but they don't appear to reduce the cost of incarceration compared with other parts of Australia. But look with this said, Australia has a normal-ish number of prisoners per 100,000, and our justice system is not systemically travelling in a direction that makes it harder for people to be rehabilitated and stay out of gaols. Obviously there are many problems within the system (Don Dale for example).
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That's a cartoon by Bill Leak that was published in the Australian. It makes what I think is a good point, and that is that the whole culture of youth detention is extremely toxic - both in and out of so-called "detention centres" (gaols).
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
