Blogger: any person in the justice system prepared to be honest about hardened offenders knows as an irrefutable fact that these people are rarely rehabilitated by community penalties and people being kind to them.
Indeed, the only criminals who ever become rehabilitated are those who decide that they want to be.
Mr Lammy's simplistic approach imagines that this is not the truth and yet is no more than one extra way of making life less tough for the incorrigible.
The problem here is twofold. Mr Lammy is not prepared to discriminate between those who are demonstrably reformed and those who are not.
His ideas might just work against a backcloth of starting, for the first time in decades, to actually punish both the worst of offenders and the unrepentant recidivists.
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