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422552	2006-01-20 02:33:00	New Zealand. You get more rights than the victims (or the general public for that matter) :mad: I hear that statement a lot, and i've never really looked into it. Could you care to list the extra rights that criminals recieve?	imarubberducky (7230)
422553	2006-01-20 03:25:00	I hear that statement a lot, and i've never really looked into it. Could you care to list the extra rights that criminals recieve? They don't have any more rights than the rest of us, but there have been a few high profile cases where criminals have had their rights enforced. Almost everyone knows a law abiding citizen who's rights haven't been enforced so they think the prisioners get a better deal, but prisioners are unlikely to get their rights enforced unless the media get a hold of the story. The real problem is that the punishment often doesn't fit the crime - serious assults by people known to the police earn little more than a slap on the hand and high profile cases end up with the victim getting a huge settlement. The amount of money the victim gets should be decided by how much they missed out on in lost wages etc, what they had to spend because of the crime, plus an amount decided by the judge for the inconvienence caused (but not a huge amount.) Almost forgot ongoing costs - the government will probably pay for most ongoing medical costs but the estimated ongoing costs should be added to the bill. I suppose it all adds up, but not if the victim is in jail at the time of the offence. For the mistreated prisioners, the people involved should have been done for assault & whoever was in charge of that particular prison should have lost their job, but not a huge settlement from the government	Greven (91)
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