Member

How can we continue with an action plan that has been running for years but is not achieving justice in time? It is difficult to understand how that can be the case. Possibly it is because, as I explained in Committee, the officials in the department simply do not understand that IPP is not dealing with offenders who committed very serious offences that needed life imprisonment. This was a mistaken sentence: a flawed view that you could cure someone of not being good. When you think of what the ambition was, it is no wonder that it was bound to fail. But they do not seem to understand that. They also do not understand the concept of justice: that if you make a mistake and damage people, you owe a duty to remedy that.