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Judge: Sentencing options 'inadequate'
By ABC.net
Published: 12/09/2008

AUSTRALIA - A Tasmanian Supreme Court judge has described the state's range of sentencing options as inadequate. Justice Shan Tennant spoke at a Women in Corrections Conference in Hobart today about female offenders.

She told about 200 delegates to the national forum she agreed with Australian anti-prison advocate and keynote speaker, Debbie Kilroy, that incarceration is not always the answer. But she said the courts had limited sentencing options. Read more.

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