Comment: We are criminals
17 Jan 2010, 4:20 PM
Salim Waheed
The Maldives has the 10th highest prison population rate in the world and our society is set up to perpetuate this rate.
The victory in 2008 ushering in democracy has barely lessened the number of people incarcerated. It has not changed how we treat people who have gone to jail, nor the causes for which so many of our people lose their freedom. It has not made us reflect on the effect this is having on our society. And as a nation we will suffer for this together.
Culture promoting criminality
Before we won the election, politicians on my side of the divide could have claimed that many of the prisoners in jail were the result of political repression.
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