Reflection letter from a prisoner Roberts Mutulis.
26-04-2011
Latvian Criminal Law most severe, but more often applied to criminal penalties of imprisonment is at present, but the most commonly applied to criminal detention - imprisonment. Both imprisonment and detention of persons isolation from society, and the longer term it has a negative effect.
Latvia and the European Council and European Union Member States must be followed strictly binding rules governing the stay order in prisons.
Council of Europe experts in the prison in recent years, sharply criticized Latvia for failing to ensure full compliance with the conditions of his sentence Latvian and international law. The alleged lack of financial resources experts unconvincing.
Spaces per prisoner is limited (at present it is not possible prisoners of conscience, even in the Latvian Penal Code provisions, which provide 2.5 m for men, but women and minors-3m ² per prisoner). It is necessary for cells for prisoners based on 2-4 people in one place, per 4 m² per prisoner.
Arrested and convicted people have been twice as large as in the number of places (in accordance with the Council of Europe Recommendation No. R (92) 22 on prison overcrowding and prison population inflation "- 4m ² per prisoner). Prison is not enough space to house prisoners there are already existing in accordance with these requirements - a lack of space for deployment about 2100 prisoners.
Many of the prison buildings are very old - built in the 19th At the end of the century. Of them designed not as a prison, but Soviet colonies - those prisoners housed in large common areas that do not meet today's needs.
Prevention, control and social processes to counter adverse effects is not only a criminological and legal but also social, economic and political problem.
For thousands of years, there has been a struggle between good and evil. Evil is always being eradicated, the public choosing the appropriate stage of development funds. In its development mankind has abandoned the idea that criminal penalties should be revenge for the offense was committed. Consistently pursuing this idea, would be imitated and duplicated evil, but no court would be competent to accurately determine the penalty, which the evil and suffering, it would be equivalent to a crime.
Human natural and inherent nature is changed, improved and rearranged to eliminate the cause of crime.
In most cases, the punishment of criminals can be converted to a valid member of society.
With the penalty, we understand the operation, which has a tendency to cause suffering and carried out with the knowledge that someone has committed a crime.
Restrictions on the right is a psychological and pedagogical nature of exposure.
Criminal penalties are the most severest state coercive function, and in itself an obligation to do so in strict legal form.
Judicial Virtue Utopia: take away life, leaving just the pain, deprived of all rights, without suffering, imposing sanctions, which are exempt from the pain. The key is no longer a body but the soul. The soul is the result of a political anatomy and instruments, it is the body's prison.
A key issue for criminal justice policy be formulated as follows: whether the firm is subject only to punishment, or crime? To paraphrase it to make it: or just the victims of the public, and whether the offender is also a member of the same company and product?
Resulting in erroneous assumption that the fight against crime is the only detection and incarceration of criminals.
File, which Latvia has so far lost the European Court of Human Rights, shows that, although these losses are explained in part by deficiencies in the law, their share of the blame must also have laws applying them. A special role here is really a privileged position because: they just have the final say belongs to Latvian and pārzinādamas and Bearing in mind the human rights standards binding on Latvia and often incomplete laws under an interpretation of these standards, they are at least part of the case would have been able to prevent human rights abuses. I would like to add that we have perhaps the main problem of human rights in the country is that typically our political elite wants to introduce something that would not go quite together with human rights, it says, democracy is not impunity. But democracy is a polity where the law clearly shows that the country is allowed and what is prohibited.
Of course, democracy is not permissive, but democracy will not be an adjustment from a position of power. We are still being written in a provocative variety of laws, so that we are here in part, continuing traditions of the Soviet Union: write the laws, by nature no man can perform, and then this law can flaunt your nose and say that you have to breach.
What is it about society that we build, we tacitly accept as normal!
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Sincerely yours, Robert curl (prisoner). |
