The U.S. and all countries
of the world have
committed to implement the
UN Sustainable Development
Goals and Targets
“By far the
most important initiative and best opportunity for reform in the world ever”
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HUMANE JUSTICE
Target Action Plan TAP30 and TAP29 are the two humane criminal justice TAPs. TAP30 should be read first. All humane justice TAPs are in Paragraph 45.6 through 45.12 of Action Plan - AP45 Outline of Plans for the Public and Private Sectors to Rapidly Implement the UN Sustainable Development Goal Target Action Plans (TAPs)
Excerpts From and References for Target Action Plan -TAP
30
TAP30 Humane Prosecutions
• Prevent crimes
• Provide timely and continuing care for victims of
crimes
• End all punishments and bail bonds
• Humanely investigate alleged lawbreakers, summon
or arrest those for which there is probable cause
• Have experts examine and provide lawbreakers
individual rehabilitation plans which include amount of restitution to be
paid to their victim(s), fines, civil forfeitures, and/or community service
• Release those who can safely be released, provide
others jobs at living wages in co-ops keeping them under supervision and/or
having them committed until they can safely be released
• Treat all victims and lawbreakers with kindness
and sympathy
• Provide timely and continuing care for victims of crimes
• End all punishments and bail bonds
• Humanely investigate alleged lawbreakers, summon or arrest those for which there is probable cause
• Have experts examine and provide lawbreakers individual rehabilitation plans which include amount of restitution to be paid to their victim(s), fines, civil forfeitures, and/or community service
• Release those who can safely be released, provide others jobs at living wages in co-ops keeping them under supervision and/or having them committed until they can safely be released
• Treat all victims and lawbreakers with kindness and sympathy
Clarence Darrow's proposed strategy for criminal justice
Clarence Darrow proposed an outstanding approach for criminal justice: “All of those who for any reason cannot or do not adjust themselves to important rules,[have committed a crime] should be examined by experts to find out why it is and what can be done. They should be helped in every way possible. Regardless of what they have done they should be released when it seems safe; meantime they should be kept under supervision in kindness and sympathy instead of harshness. It is entirely possible that a person guilty of homicide could safely be set free in a short time, and that a sneak-thief or a beggar could never be changed or cured or released. Each individual should be considered by himself. To subject every inmate of prisons to the same treatment is like giving every hospital patient the same doses of medicine, or the same surgical operation, and, of course, however absurd this might seem to those who do not think, the time will come when something like this will take the place of the archaic, costly, and pernicious system that has long since been outworn.”
The basic approach is to file and seal a criminal complaint charging an alleged lawbreaker with a couple of crimes he/she has allegedly committed and listing all the other crimes they have allegedly committed. Then have them quietly and privately summoned or arrested and privately negotiate a settlement with them that should include correcting the problems that they have caused. If they will not negotiate a satisfactory settlement, hold them "in kindness and sympathy" and continue negotiations while grand jury indictments are prepared.for all the crimes they have alledgedly committed.
Recommended that both UN SDG TAPs 29 and 30 be refined and implemented in criminal investigations and prosecutions federal courts and ultimately in all local, state, international and other countries' criminal justice systems.
Principles of this Plan includes:
- All victims of crimes should be taken care of
immediately by the government and NGOs as appropriate and receive timely
restitution if and as appropriate from the lawbreaker
- The first principles of criminal justice are to
protecting individuals and their property from lawbreakers, prevent
crimes, restitution for victims of crimes, rehabilitating law
breakers and maintaining a rule of law.
- Clarence Darrow recommended that as part of investigations,
alleged criminals "Should be examined by experts to find out why it is and what can
be done. They should be helped in every way possible."
- Crimes result from the failure of both the individual
not taking responsibility for his actions and the public and
private sectors not ensuring that all individuals have an adequate
education, employment opportunities, affordable necessities of life,
including mental and emotional
healthcare.
- Utilizing a humane private (not secret) criminal
and victim's statement of demand or tort claim for damages
- Using punishment, confinement, detention and public
shaming do not work, are counterproductive to rehabilitation, damage the
ability of the lawbreaker to pay restitution and should not be
used
- Lawbreakers who are a threat to society or to themselves
"should be kept under supervision
in kindness and sympathy instead of harshness" as stated by Clarence Darrow
- Lawbreakers should be encouraged and led to stay
busy, be responsible for their actions, be contrite and pay
restitution to their victims
The below Table of Contents provides an outline of this Plan. Each item in the plan can be accessed by clicking on irr.
Table of Contents
30.4.4 Liaison with Investigators and Prosecutors
30.6Food for Thought for Those Reluctant to Help with Prosecutions