Mandatory Sentencing

Title: Mandatory Sentencing
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 477 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Mandatory Sentencing

No degree of persecution complex on the part of the Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr. Denis Burke, can change the fact that the death of a 15-year old Aboriginal, Johnno Warramarrba, is a result of the territory’s draconian sentencing laws. “People will rub their hands with glee and say Burke’s got blood on his hands because of mandatory sentencing,” Mr. Burke said. It was “the lowest of the low” to suggest that Mr. …showed first 75 words of 477 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 477 total…any country that purports to have a humane and civil juvenile system. The NT Law Society president, Mr. Jon Tippett, described the death of this boy as “a day of shame for all territorians”. It is also, by extension, a day of shame for all Australians. The rest of the world is already looking askance at us because of these laws, but even more important is the way we see ourselves. They must be overturned.

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