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  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.

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