30 April 2009

Kevin John Jones faces seven years of isolation

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The Canberra Times reports that the prison rapist Kevin John Jones, 50, has been sentenced to another seven years of imprisonment after being convicted of raping his young cellmate in the Belconnen Remand Centre.

    The 50-year-old Jones, who has spent nearly a quarter of his life behind bars, was diagnosed in a pre-sentence psychological report with chronic alcoholism, a major depressive disorder and an antisocial personality disorder.

    Justice Malcolm Gray said yesterday that Jones’s criminal career had begun when he was 14 and included convictions for assault, inflicting grievous bodily harm, assault with a weapon and numerous drink-driving offences.

Apparently keeping him in isolation is going to test the resources of the Alexander Maconochie Center (the new prison in Hume).

One has to wonder if we wouldn’t be better off exporting hard cases like this one?

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If he likes to romp so much, we could implant some breasts into him then send him to Thai land to be a lovely Thai-Boy. In a Thai prison of course.

Then everyone’s happy.

ant said :

I found the vegemite thing intriguing. You can brew alcyhol from fruit juice with a bit of yeast, although adding sugar results in better alcyhol, and orange juice is one that people don’t bother with as the citric acid mucks things up. I wonder how the crims do it? Vegemite has yeast, I guess, but lots of salt, too. I guess they could add plenty of sugar.

Sounds horrible though.

and absolute alcohol has a nasty side effect – if you get the mix wrong.

vg the idea of rehabilitation is to try to turn people around a bit before they get this bad.

send this guy to goulburn.

I don’t see the problem. Plenty of people on this site like to complain about light sentencing from our judiciary. This might balance things out. Our judges only send murderers to jail for 6 months instead of 20 years but they have to share a cell with this guy.

I found the vegemite thing intriguing. You can brew alcyhol from fruit juice with a bit of yeast, although adding sugar results in better alcyhol, and orange juice is one that people don’t bother with as the citric acid mucks things up. I wonder how the crims do it? Vegemite has yeast, I guess, but lots of salt, too. I guess they could add plenty of sugar.

Sounds horrible though.

ant said :

People like this should be kept with other people like that. As ronster points out, there’s some nice people at Goulburn. What about the Anita Cobby people, Ivan Milat… why can’t they have a facility for vicious, unpleasant, violent people only?

They have, is called Supermax at Goulburn

Chemical castration is okay – so long as the dangly bits are dipped into the hydrochloric acid deeply enough.

…vegimite saches in orange juice…

How long does that take to produce a useful amount of ethanol? ewwww…

I would think that with exchange rates the way they are, you could house him in a Russian prison for seven years cheap, even considering the cost of airfares.

Or do a Carny, and just banish him from town…

Strap some Class A drugs to him, and give him a one way ticket to Bali.

Public hanging in the city.
It will give the kiddies something to do on the weekend.

ant said :

chemical castration is no good, they have to keep taking the chemicals for it to keep working. I’d chip in for a rubber ring for this champion.

nah, the red hot iron removal would be far more fun. rings can be broken, but a red hot marking iron never fails…

failing that, a rusting marking knife would have an equally satisfying effect…

C’mon, surely someone out there is going to weigh into this with the good old “rehabilitation is better/what a terrible upbringing/its not his fault”. Surely?

Sad thing is his punishment for raping someone in what essentially is a prison is to give him more time in prison. Interesting to see what ‘isolation’ means in our human rights compliant prison.

Anyone want to run a book on how long it takes this guy to do the same thing again?

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy1:12 pm 30 Apr 09

Exported into the sun with a catapult.

Love it, best idea I’ve heard all day!

“One has to wonder if we wouldn’t be better off exporting hard cases like this one?”

Saudi Arabia would be an excellent export market for the likes of this subhuman.

ant said :

Catapult thing FTW.

FTW +1

Why can’t we offer ‘humans’ like this to car manufacturers for use as living crash test dummies?

chemical castration is no good, they have to keep taking the chemicals for it to keep working. I’d chip in for a rubber ring for this champion.

One has to wonder if Chemical Castration is mentioned in our Human rights act?

People like this should be kept with other people like that. As ronster points out, there’s some nice people at Goulburn. What about the Anita Cobby people, Ivan Milat… why can’t they have a facility for vicious, unpleasant, violent people only?

Pommy bastard12:20 pm 30 Apr 09

We’d humanely put a dog to sleep for far less than this man has done.

Perhaps allow the kind gent some space with the Lebanese rapists in Goulburn. Think they’d make fine company!

Shawshank is a brilliant movie. Sorry completely off topic. Just had to say it.

We could outsource our supermax and higher level max security prisoners to prisons in China or the USA.

Or we could go all Shawshank Redemption on him. Have him meet with the warden at night just oustide the prison building, where he gets shot in the back by a guard in the tower above.

Catapult thing FTW.

Exported into the sun with a catapult.

+1

Woody Mann-Caruso10:33 am 30 Apr 09

One has to wonder if we wouldn’t be better off exporting hard cases like this one?

Exported into the sun with a catapult.

Mike Crowther10:26 am 30 Apr 09

niftydog, if an alcoholic is committed enough, they will find something to drink. Brasso, windex, vegimite saches in orange juice….I’ve seen em drink it all. I would have thought his propensity to bum the unwilling should have been more of an immediate concern to the bench, but hey, I never studied law.

We built this prison to look after our own issues. But as a small territory, we can’t be expected to deal with every possible eventuality.

We send serious medical operations to Sydney hospitals, I don’t see why we can’t send our most problematic prisoners to a higher level security prison elsewhere.

…would confound the difficulties faced by the jail’s rehabilitation workers in their efforts to treat his alcoholism…

¿qué?

Is there also a bottle shop in the new jail or am I missing something?

What a horrible, disgusting man. I’d suggest what we can do with people like this but I don’t think it would go down very well…

LlamaFrog said :

I agree why should we have to deal with our own issues.

+1

Mike Crowther10:00 am 30 Apr 09

Seven years? A crim like Jones can do a piss-weak sentence like that standing on his head. Then he’s ‘our’ problem again. I’m sure the human rights agenda at the new AMC will have him fit to walk our streets by then. Wont it?

What on earth do you do with someone like this? Fair dinkum. I wonder how many like him there are out there.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy9:46 am 30 Apr 09

He sounds like he needs some TLC.

(Two Lead Cartridges)

I agree why should we have to deal with our own issues.

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