This just made me mad!

I read the story of Tracy Goodman's trial being delayed and felt nothing but anger. Everyone involved agrees that Goodman's incarcaration at the local Police Station is "not good enough" but instead sit around finger pointing at each other.

I agree with the sentiment that Tracy Goodman should not be kept in the Wanganui Police cells with the light on overnight. I'm not some redneck who thinks an imprisoned person should be ill-treated.Prisoners are punished by the depravation of liberty, not by using low-level torture techniques. (Nor should prisons be anything but safe and dull - no gyms, no tv, bland food, but that's not my point.)

The family of Mona Morriss was also be wondering why so much time is being taken on determining where Goodman sleeps, instead of establishing whether she is guilty or not guilty of killing Mrs Morriss.

As Corrections, Courts and Police can't co-ordinate keeping a prisoner in a cell, the whole trial could be postponed for longer - costing more than if a private contractor was used to transport Goodman from Palmerston North each day.