Reform needed to justice system and the world

Re: Niagara man who stabbed sex worker convicted of attempted murder, May 4

After repeatedly stabbing a woman while receiving oral sex, the perpetrator gets five years in prison and the judge thinks this adequate?

First of all, he should be in a place where criminals can be treated for this kind of lethal hatred of women and only then released back into the public domain.

Who is held responsible besides him if he goes berserk again when released after the five years in a penitentiary where the treatment, if any, is suspect? The judge? The system?

Someone else should be responsible, has to be, or the system is a sham.

One of the pressures from an inept justice system resulting in these wacky sentences is a result of prison overcrowding.

But the answer to this problem is not to build new prisons, but a new society. And this cannot be done by artificially creating outcomes without foundation, as the prime minister and many others want to do, but by reforming all of society, from violence in film, television and music to pornography and lack of spirituality in everyday life.

Of course, this is above their heads and requires dealing with what they are afraid to deal with: common sense and fairness across the board, intra-personally as well as intra-financially.

And so we will continue to rot until spontaneous combustion sets in and we ignite.

Wayne Borbey, Niagara Falls