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Article #5969Re: Here's A Judge Who Gets It, Finally!
From: Determinator
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:29
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:29
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John Fleming wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:56:09 GMT, while chained to a desk in the > scriptorium, "X" <X@fake.email> wrote: > > >>$In Canada - a youth murder sentence is pretty will over with by the time a >>$youth turns 18 so they can have a clean adult record. Sad, but true. Back >>$a few years ago - a youth broke into a church, murdered the priest for a few >>$bucks, in youth detention until 18, then released. Name held secret. > > > That's one of the sad things about our youth justice system. Kids can > get away, almost literally, with murder. > A decade that would be true however these days I would disagree... for serious crimes more youth are being tried as an adult. > I'd like to see kids who have been in trouble with the law three times > automatically transfered to adult court and treated as adults. That > means adult sentences. That also means, ta da, getting their names > published in the paper as well. It's called "dangerous offender" and it's already being done in Alberta. > If we aren't getting through their thick skulls the first couple of > times around, then we need to take steps to protect the public. I believe Stats Canada says that youth crime rates are on a general decline over past twenty years
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X-Google-Thread: 108c64,407abb822dc77d8c X-Google-Thread: f504b,6aebf1835a54fc73 X-Google-Thread: 10d2a3,6aebf1835a54fc73 X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,6aebf1835a54fc73 X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,6aebf1835a54fc73 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c64,gidf504b,gid10d2a3,gidf7b9c,gid1083bf,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!cyclone.bc.net!grisham.sasknet.sk.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!tabloid.srv.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!not-for-mail From: Determinator <Determinator@fubar.ca> Newsgroups: wpg.general,can.general,edm.general,ns.general,van.general,pei.general Subject: Re: Here's A Judge Who Gets It, Finally! Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:29:50 -0600 Organization: Have you heard from the mothership? Lines: 31 Message-ID: <df1cf3$e0g$1@news.ucalgary.ca> References: <iHqQe.1116$qP3.14207@news1.mts.net> <20i4h1pkkuajncpq7p39hmep97e0bjpkos@4ax.com> <75j4h15hvtvlk0gvbcsfckq8cnn0jvl02v@4ax.com> <vPtQe.218154$HI.214945@edtnps84> <dPuQe.35408$Hk.35007@pd7tw1no> <ovv4h1hoteohdc7epicsssab872ouc2paf@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: srv1.calcna.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.ucalgary.ca 1125397796 14352 198.161.243.11 (30 Aug 2005 10:29:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.ucalgary.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:29:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <ovv4h1hoteohdc7epicsssab872ouc2paf@4ax.com>