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Re:Perth man jailed for 7 months after breaching self-quaran... by Derek_Mudaxe on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:34PM (#27824475)
>I get that a former penal colony probably has inherited expansive judicial discretion

This made me double take. The Thirteen colonies was used as a penal colony too, so maybe the USA has expansive judicial discretion too, or maybe it's not really relevant.

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Re:Perth man jailed for 7 months after breaching self-quaran... by jjk166 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:11PM (#27824936)
Well it does have both the highest incarceration rate and highest absolute number of people incarcerated in the world.
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Re:Perth man jailed for 7 months after breaching self-quaran... by Derek_Mudaxe on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:17PM (#27825024)
Just carrying on the tradition then I suppose.
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