The Comrade's concern for youth sentenced to detention

how do you know quamby is a joke? have you spent time there? Talk to someone who has instead of reading your Akerboltson type opinion pieces and you might get a different view of the world.

Quamby is a joke.

We all know that. Hence the “holiday” tag.

ssanta, you’re right about the parents though. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if one or both of the parents had no respect for the law and/or had served jail time.

make the parents accountable for their childrens actions. tether then moth together. A kid wont be take the chance steal a car while his father is drunk asleep on the couch.

Knowing people that have been in Quamby I wouldn’t exactly call it a holiday farm. Sure it’s easier than doing time in Long Bay but so it should be – despite what the lynch mob is saying these criminals are still only kids with a chance of turning their life around.

Quamby is basically the form of discipline these kids should have got when they were younger enforce on them by fences and gates.

It shouldn’t even get to three strikes.

GBB’s are a joke – everyone knows that.

Why do you think most teachers WON’T apply for Quamby? Because the students see it as a holiday and they don’t want to do any school work.

Get rid of the TVs etc and make them sit in the room with their thoughts. Better yet, set up a conference with the victims (like they do in the US) so that the “child” actually sees the impact their actions have on others.

Enough of this hippie hugging PC BS. It isn’t working.

Should be mandatory sentencing. 3 strikes your out type thing and keep them all locked down with nothing but the discovery channel and text books. Quamby is not a deterant to crime.

Just when I thought Stanhope couldn’t be any softer.

The reason the stats say there are more juveniles sentenced to detention is because after they have been charged on 50 or 60 different occasions and every hand holding hippy power good behaviour bond, supervision order, suspended sentence, set of ‘strict’ bail conditions, or ever faithful ‘proved without conviction’ or ‘proved no penalty’ has been used over and over again they are eventually sentenced to a term of detention far outweighed by the amount of crimes they have committed.

The court imposes these ‘harsh terms of detention’ to scare them straight or teach them a lesson, but what weakling can’t survive a couple of weeks in Quamby after running wild for months without any real punishment ?

They learn nothing and continue to offend, and serve a number of short sentences without breaking a sweat.

Good to see at least some people have the common sense to see what a dreamer Stanhope is. Lets have an inquiry and empty Quamby, watch the crime stats go through the roof and we can all live happily ever after in Stanhope’s fairy filled magical happy land. At least we won’t “appear to be the toughest jurisdiction in Australia.”

What a joker.

Could you spare us all the crocodile tears CM over putting your loyal subjects in the slammer.

If you are that concerned about the incarceration of your subjects why are you building the Hume Hilton?

The cost benefit show you will need at least a 50% increase in the ACT prison population to make this spectacular waste of (our money) sorry your subjects tributes cost effective to run.

This is will of course be on top of what will be a spectacular build cost but who needs schools and roads when you can have a state of he art correctional facility run under the country’s only Human Rights Act.

What a kinder gentler prison the ACT’s criminal fraternity can enjoy instead of all that harsh treatment up the road.

Lies, dam lies, and statistics.

does anyone know if all the little darlings who get “no recorded conviction” are skewing the stats?