Labour has laid the groundwork for jailing fewer criminals with a new report blasting longer prison terms as a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction.
An official review of sentencing policy said a ‘tough on crime narrative’ adopted by successive governments had left the justice system on ‘the brink of collapse’.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood launched the review in October
with a remit to ‘explore tougher punishments outside of prison’,
including house arrest.
about. 25 years ago we had been
under-imprisoning for 50 years - we have
given so many criminals a virtually free pass
for decades.
No proper punishment = no deterrent effects = huge amounts of extra crime.
Non-custodial sentences do NOT work. The only
people who respond to soft sentencing are the
very, very few who actually want to reform!
I have seen far too many thugs come out of
courts laughing uproariously when prison has
not been awarded for sickening offences.
Our justice system is a joke - hijacked by
mindless liberals who think that the so-called
'rights' of criminals are far more important
than living in a virtually crime-free society
like Singapore!
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