Jannean E Dean

INDEPENDENT FOR HERVEY BAY

You dont need sight to have vision

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JUDICIARY IS A JOKE
The Queensland Bail Act 1980 has failed many people. It raises the main point of why we have this Act in the
first place. Do the Magistrates and Judges act in the spirit of the Bail laws? Whether the court system is doing
the job properly? Why are there not proper protocols in place? If the conditions are not applied strictly Bail
conditions will not work.
Our Laws need to be a deterrent and crime penalties need to be just! Offenders are so complacent with the
current laws; they dont even care what the consequences are. The police work so hard to make our
communities safer, only to see people putting others at risk released into the community with a mere slap on
the wrist.
There should be no parole and no suspended sentences. Do the crime do the time. Life should mean
exactly that life not 25 years and released early with most serving less than half their sentences.
Our jails are at or over capacity with a large percentage of inmates convicted with drug or alcohol related
offences.
The number of prisoners in adult corrective services custody increased by 10% over the past 12 months to
reach a ten year high of 33,791. Queensland has the second largest adult prisoner population (21% or 7,049
prisoners). At 30 June 2014, of all states and territories Queensland experienced the largest increase in
prisoner numbers since 30 June 2013 (increase of 16% or 973 prisoners) and had the highest proportion of
adult prisoners aged under 25 years (22% or 1,545 prisoners).
It is very expensive to keep a prisoner with a cost of approximately $80,000 a year and probably about another
$70,000 to sentence that prisoner, so in the first year it's $150,000 to $160,000. We need to stop prisoners
reoffending so this will be a huge cost saving to the community; besides this is a more ethical thing to do.
We have had 28 weapons offences in the past 11 months. 645 drug offences and 723 handling of stolen
property. It is clear to me the judicial system is not working and there needs to be change. These are alarming
statistics for Hervey Bay and only three (3) of many.
I am proposing a boot style camp for alcohol, drug and petty criminals minimum six (6) months including
counselling / treatment which will provide them an opportunity to learn why they made such poor choices and
equip them to bring a positive contribution to community. This will also free up our overcrowded jails.
Further to this I would like to see sex offenders and paedophiles never to be released and placed in main
stream prisons. They have failed to protect members of our community they did not protect our children and
most vulnerable. But if they insist on letting these types of unwelcomed people into our communities then we
should have every right to know where they are, so we can be vigilant and provide safer strategies for our
community. We need to endorse Derryn Hinchs National Sex Offender Register and have it available for all. I
know there are at least five (5) sex offenders living in Torquay, makes me wonder how many we dont know
about living around us, the answer could be quite disturbing. As for hardened criminals; i.e. murderers, armed
robbers, serious assaulters etc. Lets put them back to work in the style of chain gangs of old with a modern
twist.
I am so sick of excuses being used for excuses or justification or reasoning to why people offend. We need to
teach them that they made the decision to break the law and the law has consequences, right now it does not
reflect respect and does not have common sense logic connected to it. Time for change, time for a new vision,
time for a new approach; it is time to stop and fix the Judiciary System.

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Enquiries: Jannean E Dean 0437 912 212

Jannean E Dean
INDEPENDENT FOR HERVEY BAY
You dont need sight to have vision

Bail
I would love to give this woman her passport and have her deported! But unfortunately for us she was born in
Australia. Amirah Droudis should never to be allowed to step foot outside a jail cell again! How is she even
permitted walking our streets? She not only assisted Man Monis write those offensive letters to the families of
our soldiers killed in Afghanistan; as if that was not enough to have some form of punishment, what about all
the YouTube clips where she states she is a terrorist? Still not enough? Surely being charged with murder
especially one that involves a repeated stabbing and then setting a human alight would warrant bail refusal as a
minimum? But no still not enough! Our Judicial System is failing us and putting innocent people at risk.
Government needs to act on this as if their own lives depended upon it. Her bail currently under review but is
this too late or enough? Makes you wonder how many more have slipped through the cracks in the system.

Guns
Guns dont kill people, people kills people. A gun requires a user to intentionally (or unintentionally) murder
someone. I believe our statistics speak enough to say the current legislation has been working for us to date.
However, in the wake of recent events makes you wonder whether we are truly free and have a right to protect
ourselves.
My mother always ensured I had a small can of hairspray or perfume in my bag and taught me to use it if I
need to. Why arent we discussing strategies and resources that could assist us in protecting ourselves?
Anyone is vulnerable under the right conditions, circumstances, mental state and dynamics to be capable of
causing serious harm to another and possibly killing another person.
Guns are not the only choice of weapon: Explosives, drowning victims, narcotics used for murder, fire induced
killings, strangulation to death, asphyxiation to death, use of blunt objects, personal body weapons i.e. hands,
feet, fists and head, knives and cutting instruments are some other examples. But still a person needs to make
this choice.
Times have changed we have an ever increasing methamphetamine problem which alters the mind, so if we
have addicts and more access to guns, we will have an extremely serious problem. Added to this the mental
disability that occurs with drug and alcohol induced psychosis how safe would any of us be?
Licenced firearm owners and licenced fireworks that have been through all the background checks by state and
federal police; if caught with illegal unlicensed firearms or illegal fireworks have the book thrown at them.
A criminal with unlicensed, illegal firearms which are also shortened beyond legal, was caught with drugs,
ammunition and fireworks without appropriate licences which are defined as explosives in Hervey Bay Qld.
Yesterday he was given three (3) years behind bars but ordered released on immediate parole after taking into
account the 287 days served in pre-sentence custody. Go figure! This certainly doesnt make sense to me!
We need Geoffrey Robertsons hypothetical format to have a calm and measured discussion about the right to
practical self-defence.

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Enquiries: Jannean E Dean 0437 912 212