‘Crushes People’s Souls’: Victorian Liberals Call for Extensive Prison Reform

Over 37 percent of all people in Victorian prisons are currently unsentenced.

Razor wire tops a fence at a U.S. prison, on Oct. 22, 2016 at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. military's Joint Task Force Guantanamo is holding 60 detainees at the prison, down from a previous total of 780. In 2008 President Obama issued an executive order to close the prison, which has failed because of political opposition in the U.S. John Moore/Getty Images

The Victorian Liberal Party has called for extensive reform to release as many un-convicted Victorians as possible out of prison because it “crushes people’s souls.”

Liberal MP Matt Bach indicated that the current laws keeping people who have yet to be found guilty by the court in prison was create bigger and stronger government.