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| Convict ‘shortage’ in Singapore, prison construction halted |
| 2008-08-09 |
| Singapore has stopped the construction of two prisons partly because the city stateÂ’s aging population is not producing enough criminals, its prisons director said. Ng Joo Hee said work on two of the four prisons of the Singapore $1 billion Changi Prison Complex was halted after the number of inmates fell to a 10-year low of 11,768 last year. Singapore has some of the stiffest penalties for crime in the world, including cane lashes and death by hanging for some drug offences. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #6 Ship them some of our convicts for a price. Might help out our economy and we don't have to pay for keeping them. Probably little recidivism too. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-08-09 19:47 |
| #5 Singapore is the only place I've ever been where I thought there was a possibility that the 2nd Amendment might not be an absolute requirement. Those guys don't put up with any nonsense there. Justice in Singapore is swift, sure and very, very tough on offenders. NO ONE who goes to jail in Singapore EVER wants to see the inside of their prison system again. We should be just as tough. I'd like to see us caning lots of the bastards we have in jails now; it would do wonders for their post-prison attitudes. A fair number of summary executions for the worst offenders wouldn't hurt either. |
| Posted by: Hupiling the Galactic Hero1106 2008-08-09 19:30 |
| #4 Mandatory jail sentence for anyone renting property to an illegal resident. A position the government stuck to despite highly publicized cases of little old ladies going to jail. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-08-09 18:00 |
| #3 Prisoner Shortage and stiff penalties? Who've have predicted that? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-08-09 17:25 |
| #2 Or transfer Gitmo detainees. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-08-09 16:55 |
| #1 You could outsource it to Detroit or New Orleans or East LA, ya know. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-09 14:42 |