NSW: Call for violent crims to be supervised post parole

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2010
NSW: Call for violent crims to be supervised post parole

SYDNEY, April 7 AAP - Violent criminals should be forced to wear electronic monitoring
anklets after their release from prison, the NSW opposition says.

Shadow Attorney-General Greg Smith wants stringent monitoring of sex offenders extended
to cover people convicted of serious violent crimes.

"There is a gap in the law where a violent criminal is released without parole or where
their parole is completed," Mr Smith said in a statement on Wednesday.

"There is need for further close supervision of some dangerous offenders.

"The court could order ... the wearing of an anklet which can be monitored 24 hours per day."

The coalition has urged for an increase in post-parole supervision since the shotgun
murder of man near Wollongong in November 2007, Mr Smith said.

The man was killed when he confronted neighbour Stanley Francis Maguire, who was acting
in a disturbing and noisy manner.

Maguire had finished parole after serving a manslaughter sentence.

Mr Smith's call comes as the NSW government considers radical new laws to keep violent
offenders behind bars if they're deemed too dangerous to be freed after serving their
sentence.

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KEYWORD: SUPERVISION

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