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marcus-chris Lawson, | London- (United Kingdom) | 9/3/2008 3:36:00 PM

Given that our prisons are full like sardine tins, the highcost of their management, given that an aspect of punishment must be rehabilitation ,can our chief justice begin to consider my call for community sentences for minor offences,so as to leave the limited prison spaces for entrenched and recalcitrant offenders who commit very serious offences.
community sentencing comes with well tailored diversionary programmes to change the criminal mind set and assist the development of alternative lifestlyes and promotes rehabilitation.

A modern approach to crime prevention and management.

At least we can start with juveniles as the paramountcy of the welfare of the child is an arch principle of both the children act and the juvenile justice act of ghana
most developed countries and some developing ones use the alternative to custody approaches to managing and preventing youth crime in particular.

Even police reprimands and final warnings as are enshrined in our criminal justice practice must go with programmes to seek to educate and divert young persons from criminal behaviours or lfestyle.

The current modus operandi of just signing off a piece of paper is archaic and unproductive.

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