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| Danger data claimed wildly inaccurate |
| By Herald Sun |
| Published: 06/04/2008 |
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AUSTRALIA - Figures claiming to show the risks involved in being sent to jail were nonsense, prison authorities said yesterday. A spokeswoman for Corrections Victoria said claims that 5 per cent of long-term prisoners were raped and 1 per cent murdered were "wildly inaccurate". And the Attorney-General said another claim by senior barristers in a controversial magazine article was "just plain wrong". The disputed prison-risk figures were stated as a sentencing reality in an editorial in the Victorian Bar News magazine, which has angered victims' groups. The editorial said victims had no role in the sentencing process and more money, manpower and concern was needed to make prisons safer. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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