'This is not justice': the law keeping more people locked up after their sentence
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What Happened to Preventative Detention?
In the last three decades, we've seen governments around australia seize on this policy idea of preventative detention in exceptional cases. The law was exeptional because it went from these serious, high risk offences and took it down to an offence that saw him serve three years in prison for robbery. But ever since then, we 've seen this principle be slowly eroded. So we've got this erosion of this liberty protecting principle first in relation to sex offenders, then in relation to terrorists. Quite a radical and significant shift.
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