Make the violent criminals pay
To your left is a picture of Angela Barker from several years ago who is in a wheel chair for life thanks to her thug ex-boyfriend. I urge you to read about what happened to Angela by clicking on her picture.
The maximum payment given to victims of crime for pain and suffering is now $10,000. Two years ago it was $7,500 and in this case the thug initially got five years in jail and then seven and a half years on appeal. Our so called justice system and it’s an absoulte disgrace.
This thug is now out of jail and we believe that for any payment he received whilst in jail, half should should have been taken off him and payed to the victim. But of course it was not.
We believe in future that half of any money these thugs earn (whether it be dole or wage) should go to the victims for the rest of their lives.
Criminals will be made to pay compensation under proposed laws
* Geoff Wilkinson
* From: Herald Sun
* February 02, 2010 12:00AMCRIMINALS would be made to pay in proposed changes to victims of crime compensation laws.
The scheme could raise millions of dollars from offenders and lessen the crimes compensation burden on taxpayers.
Offenders convicted of both criminal and traffic matters would be made to pay under a proposal being considered in a Government review of state-backed compensation.
Restitution orders paid by automatic deductions from an offender’s Centrelink payments are another option being considered to improve the chances of court-ordered compensation being recovered. Five other states and territories impose a levy on convicted offenders to help pay for crime victim compensation.
Crimes Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara welcomed the proposed change to the compensation scheme.
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“It’s a disgrace that people can get off scot free. They should be forced to pay and a levy on all criminals is a great idea,” he said.
“Getting compensation ordered by the courts is like getting blood from a stone.
“They do the crime, they should do the time and make them pay as well.”
The levy in South Australia is $120 for serious indictable offences, $70 for less serious matters and $20 on top of fines paid for infringement notices.
In NSW, a general offender levy raised $2.84 million of the state’s $61 million victim compensation payout last year.
Another $3.33 million was recovered from offenders through restitution orders.
Victorian victims can seek a state-financed award from the Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal or court-ordered compensation against an offender found guilty in criminal proceedings. The average amount of state-financed assistance awarded by VOCAT in 2008-09 was $7960.
If a court makes a compensation order, it is up to the victim to enforce the order and seek payment from the offender.
Lawyers involved in crimes compensation work agreed offenders should be made to pay, but were critical of another change being considered.
That proposal, based on the practice in four other states, would see compensation claims dealt with “on the papers” through an administrative process that would not include magistrates or lawyers representing victims.
In NSW, a government assessor decides applications without a hearing and awards are based on a set scale.
One lawyer told the Herald Sun the process would deny crime victims the chance to maximise benefits. “Victoria has led the way in reforming victims’ rights, but this would take us back to the days when a good victim was neither seen nor heard,” he said.
More than 3500 assistance awards, totalling $34 million, were made in Victoria in 2008-09 by VOCAT.
Compensation can be ordered by courts, but the discussion paper acknowledges that collecting it has been a major problem for victims.
The paper says the vast majority of offenders will not have money to pay an order.
Enforcement action by victims can be “expensive, time-consuming and ultimately not result in any money being paid”, it says.
About 1500 compensation orders are made each year by magistrates’ courts, most of them for property loss or damage and averaging about $500.
its is a joke that the victims getsuch a little sum for wat some arse hole has done to them… the victims get a lifesentence and thecrimanals get a few years in a jail cell….but those jails like a holiday away from home anyway… whereis the justice inthat…and jeff kennet changed how much victims get in theearly 90′s well i say that the victims should get more than a pathedic 7,500….and the crimanals should get LIFE
I could not agree with you more Jodz, we got a big rise out of the
miserable bastards last year the maximum payment now is $10.000
big deal.
Criminals can be made to pay!! Make them work!! Send them to prisons were they are made to pick fruit on large farms, build homes and make furniture for the homeless, paint our buildings, clean up our cities, plant trees and gardens, build bridges instead of paying for companies to rebuild our country force these criminals to work and any money earned is given to the victims!! Make them pay with blood, sweat and tears. We can make slave labor out of these scum bags to pay for their crimes!!
problem is people say criminals have rights! yeah well where are the rights of the victims?? We have rights too!! Who stands up for us? Why aren’t lawyers fighting for us just as hard as the lawyers that fight for the scum bags?? WE WANT THE RIGHT TO BE FREE OF CRIMINALS AND HAVE THEM PAY FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!!
Turning Back the
Hands of Time
Chain Gangs
Sheriff Arpaio has a different view of chain gangs than most corrections officials.
As the first Sheriff to reintroduce them, Arpaio does not consider chain gangs punishment, but rather a form of rehabilitations. They offer sentenced inmates, who have had trouble in the jail system, a way to work themselves out of long-term lockdown and back into the jail’s general population.
Arpaio says the program is meant to help inmates contribute to the community and do something productive.
In the process, they seem to find real pride in the public works they perform and the charitable causes they serve. Arpaio’s chain gangs are composed of inmates who volunteer themselves a kind of boot camp discipline. He requires them to police their living quarters like marine recruits.
If they stay out of trouble and complete the program successfully, Arpaio provides a graduation ceremony, a certificate of completion and a chance to rejoin routine jail activities such as educational programs, group recreation and trusty work assignments.
Rather than being the source of public humiliation that critics claim, chain gangs are a hit with the inmates.
As one inmate put it, “It’s better then being in the cell. I’d rather be busy than locked up in a small cell for 23 hours a day.”
In Maricopa County, the chain gangs are dressed in the old-fashion black and white striped uniforms, and each wears a cap for protection against the desert sun.
Chained together, they labor eight hours a day, six days a week, under the watchful eyes of detention officers.
Most often they work in the desert heat on such jobs as cutting fire breaks and removing trash. They also bury indigents in the county cemetary. The Office always has more requests for the chain gang than it can fill.
“It sure beats being in a cell all day. I’d rather be busy than locked up.”
Inmate
“Chain gangs help inmates learn to be productive and better disciplined.”
Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Maricopa County, Arizona
This Sheriff’s chain gang is a win-win program. Even a reporter who posed as a chain gang inmate said the work is bearable, not in-humane. Inmates, he said, learn discipline and the community at large gets beautification projects done well and inexpensively.
CDuarte, the reason is pretty simple bleeding hearts who run the system believe scumbags have drawn a bad card in life, broken homes, you no the rest and these BH think it is true.
CDuarte, there will be an update shortly on our super hero Joe within the next few days.
what a joke this justice system is ..my partner was severly beaten last august by 8 men with baseball bats and shovels no he has a brain injury yes he died on us twice throu this ordel and has since has facial reconstruction surgery 3 plates 12 screws and 3 rods all on his left side of his face and these guys we 1 got 12 months and the other 7 all walked free from court with a good behaviour bond ..they get off lightly for us that suffer like this we have a life sentence ..bring back HANGING
Yes rehabilation on the end of a rope is what these scumbags need they are then cured.