NSW: Long prison sentences to stay, says Carr

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2000
NSW: Long prison sentences to stay, says Carr

Prisoners are unlikely to get reductions to tough sentences imposed by New South Wales
courts, despite calls by jail chaplains to reduce time served by 10 per cent.

NSW Premier BOB CARR has dismissed claims by the chaplains that the current system
of punishment is fuelled by revenge and doesn't rehabilitate prisoners.

He says that's certainly not the case and that government will continue to use long
sentences to send a message to criminals, particularly drug dealers, that their behaviour
won't be tolerated.

He says recommendations yet to be …