howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#2
It's about time Ken Clarke got the boot.
That what he reckons the State saves on opening up the prisons, is paid for dearly by victims of crime, and the consequent court-cases.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#3
would still love to know he answer
prisons are full to bursting
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
there are stacks of people that could be let out keith.
let them be tagged and work for the benefit of the community.
the bail breakers are career criminals, so it is naive in the extreme to expect them to behave whilst on bail.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#5
this has been going on for years now.only the most violent get remarnded.so nothing new there then.
#6
It isn't just Ken Clarke - successive governments (yes, BarryW, even the blues) have tinkered with and mismanaged the legal systems until there are little if any real spaces for proper judgement calls. There are mandatory limits on sentencing, imposed duration until early release dates, a really complicated system of sentence calculations that has been added to and morphed with successive drives for this that and the other.
On that note, and even kind-of understanding the sentencing stuff, I am still appalled that a crime involving petty theft can get a higher, more penalising sentence than that for, say, child abuse or child pornography convictions. That is indefensible.