Friday, October 22, 2004

Can't just lock kids up, says top judge / [Canada] The Halifax Herald , 21 Oct 2004

http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/10/21/f170.raw.html
SHERRI BORDEN COLLEY
"Chief Justice Joseph Kennedy, the top judge of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, hears the public's cry for harsher incarceration for young offenders. But he says that's not the answer.
'Let's think about that in the broader context: Are we going to start to build huge correctional facilities to lock up a generation of children in this province?' Chief Justice Kennedy asked Thursday.
'I think it's fair to say that most of the public would be very pleased if judges would sentence more, would incarcerate more people more of the time on the basis of what they see. We could lock up a whole generation. Is that what they want us to do?' "