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Drunks fill cells – report

Started by LostInTime, July 20, 2006, 06:50:57 AM

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"I recommend that drunkenness should be decriminalised as an offence. Police would still retain the power to arrest intoxicated persons found committing criminal offences."

His report revealed:

A TRANSSEXUAL prisoner was put with men for three weeks, even though her gender was obvious in a strip-search on arrival.

UP TO 80 per cent of women prisoners have mental health problems, but don't get psychiatric services available to men.
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