[S2M-2689.3 (Amendment)] Decision Time — 13 Apr 2005 at 17:05

This looks like the vote on S2M-2689.3

The description in the bulletin on 2005-04-13 is:

* S2M-2689.3 Colin Fox:Women Offenders—As an amendment to motion (S2M-2689) in the name of Cathy Jamieson, leave out from “rehabilitation” to end and insert “ alternatives to custody for women and greater access to drugs rehabilitation resources are vital; believes that prison is no place to treat women with severe mental health, drugs or alcohol problems; believes that the vast majority of women prisoners pose no threat to the community and should best serve their sentences in the community; believes that only by tackling the root causes of their offending: poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, history of abuse and health problems, will the current trends of increased incarceration be reversed; further believes that it is unacceptable that women end up in jail for trivial offences like fine defaulting, shoplifting and TV licence evasion, and believes that it is time to end custody as a penalty for these and other such offences.”

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Text Introducing Division:

The fourth question is, that amendment S2M-2689.3, in the name of Colin Fox, which seeks to amend motion S2M-2689, in the name of Cathy Jamieson, on women offenders, be agreed to. Are we agreed?

No.

There will be a division.

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