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Labor’s Justice System: Spend A Year In Gaol Languishing In Limbo

Thursday, 10 December 2009
Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for Justice Greg Smith SC today said the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2009 report on Prisoners in Australia shows New South Wales has the highest number of prisoners in remand of any State or Territory in Australia, including the disgraceful statistic of 371 people on remand for longer than a year, far exceeding the national average.
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Dangerous Young Murderers Must Be Controlled

Sunday, 29 November 2009
The proposal by the Sentencing Council that final sentencing of young persons convicted of murder should be delayed has received qualified support from the NSW Liberals & Nationals, Shadow Attorney General Greg Smith SC said today.
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Long Bay Jail Riot – Labor Covers Up For Breakdown In Jail Security

Sunday, 29 November 2009
Shadow Attorney General Greg Smith SC today blasted the Rees Labor Government for their cover-up of a massive prison riot last week, which involved up to 40 prisoners at Long Bay Jail.
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Iemma Govt Gives Up On Rehabilitating Young Offenders

Thursday, 22 May 2008

“I frankly query the benefit of a 21-year-old running down the clock in a juvenile facility when they are uninterested in mending their ways."

NSW Juvenile Justice Minister Barbara Perry, Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2008

Hatzistergos Stuff Up Leads To Murderer’s Appeal

Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Attorney General John Hatzistergos has bungled the isolated detention of jailed murderer and high risk prisoner Bassam Hamzy who could be released back into the general jail population, Shadow Justice Minister Greg Smith SC said today.
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