There was a time when black was black and white was white, and going to prison meant you lost the rights you had as a law abiding citizen ... those freedoms that you should have considered prior to incarceration, those freedoms that should you have considered and valued greater than the punishment for the crime you intended to commit, you would not have committed and lost.
If your wife wanted another child it required broadening the genetic base ... but not anymore.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Britain had breached the rights of a murderer and his wife by denying them access to artificial insemination.
Kirk Dickson, 35, wants to have a baby but will not be released from prison until 2009 at the earliest. By that time his wife Lorraine, 49, of Beverley, East Yorkshire, who already has three children from other relationships, will be 51.
So it is a right now in europe to artificially inseminate one's partner from behind bars ... in New Zealand this still requires sleight of hand in the broader sense, prestidigitation if you prefer.
Either way, the more rights that are granted to our 'sufficiently serious criminals that require incarceration,' the less the deterrent effect imprisonment must have. It is little wonder that corrections departments have the reputations they do ... they have earned it, at their own direction, the direction of the justice system and politicians.
Mind you, perhaps Britain will continue to deprive this couple of their 'human rights?'
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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