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Sentences - 2010 Annual Literary Competition
 

Section 5:

Essay on ideas about how to improve the prison system

(2,500 word limit)
 

"Ideas about How to Improve the Prison System:

A 10 Point Plan"
 

Ideas about how to improve the prison system, to stand any chance of ever being implemented, need to be thought out, considered, practical and achievable. Such ideas can range from simple, practical measures to detailed, system-wide policy changes. What follows are ten ideas that cover that spectrum.

First, my initial idea about how to improve the prison system in Victoria is a simple administrative one. An administrative procedure repeated at every prison during a prisoner's reception is the issue of prison clothing. Every prisoner, therefore, must obtain clothing that fits every time he arrives at a new prison. If he is fortunate enough to obtain perfectly fitting clothing during his stay at one prison, he inevitably has to give it up when he departs that prison for another. Given that all men's prison clothing in Victoria is dark green, and all women's prison clothing is sky blue, each prisoner could be issued with his prison clothing on his initial reception into the prison system, and then retain them throughout his sentence. The replacement of damaged or worn clothing could be done at the prison that the prisoner happens to be in at the time. This is the system that operates with the issue of uniforms in the armed services, police and emergency services. The adoption of such a system of clothing issue by the prison system would alleviate the need to repeatedly issue clothing to the same prisoner, and would lessen the burden on prisoners to repeatedly seek out clothing that fits.

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