Solution To Crime In South Africa

**Butch Hannan** · 01-Jul-10, 07:23 AM

One exception to the 94% quoted by you is offenders who do religious courses in the prisons where the re-offending rate is as low as 5%. Unfortunately only a very small percentage of offenders actually do these courses. The prison where I was involved in out of a total of 500 only 15 attended the course of 14 weeks(Alpha course). We ran three courses a year. Out of the forty five who attended the confirmed statistics show that 40 have not gone back to jail. I personally have the assurance that there are 40 less criminals on our streets

The official fall back rate is presently about 77%

Butch Hannan

**Dave A** · 01-Jul-10, 02:50 PM

So make Alpha courses compulsory as part of the sentence?

I think that will just mutilate the stats on the Alpha Course success rate.

**Dave S** · 02-Jul-10, 06:29 AM

Quote: "I stand by what I say - swift harsh public punishment. You have to punish a first world man with first world methods."

Don't you mean, "Punish a Third world criminal with third world methods".

The first world method would be to first find a "politically correct" name for the crime that has been committed, this makes the crime less serious. Then try the offender as a respectful member of society. Give him a sentence that is reduced because he is a "family man". Ensure that his jail cell is equiped with a TV and Cell phone. And then let him out early because Nelson is having a birthday...

**adrianh** · 02-Jul-10, 08:05 AM

Ah, you see, the IO post that controls my finders and the IBM XT were out of sync again.

You must also remember that during the trail, if it ever comes to it, the criminal trades his jail sentence to give evidence against his cousin who is even a bigger criminal and doesn't spend any time in prison watching the world cup on his plasma TV in his suite.

**Dave A** · 02-Jul-10, 12:38 PM

After a four-and-a-half year investigation, and two-and-a-half years since charges were first laid, former police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has been found guilty of corruption.
full story from M&G here

I wonder if he'll be trading in mates for a lighter sentence?