i8hibsh Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Zero tolerance approach please Westminster caught in possession of a blade and you get an instant 10 years in jail with zero chance of early release and no luxuries Use the blade and life in max security jail, with no chance of release EVER It aint feckin difficult who could possibly oppose this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Jails are overcrowded as it is. Feck knows what the answer is though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Simple. Forget gaol. Caught in possession of a knife. Five strokes of the birch. Personally believe it will cut it out alot then. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8hibsh Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Jails are overcrowded as it is. Feck knows what the answer is though. spend more of our hard earned taxes building more jails- -how many hundreds of millions is mispent by local gov't and westminster We as hard working law obiding people have a right to feel safe on the streets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Zero tolerance approach please Westminster caught in possession of a blade and you get an instant 10 years in jail with zero chance of early release and no luxuries Use the blade and life in max security jail, with no chance of release EVER It aint feckin difficult who could possibly oppose this? Mandatory sentencing is a nonsense. You don't understand the basics of politics and criminal justice. Locking people up costs lots of money, tax payers money. Tax payers don't want to spend money on jails, they want hospitals and schools and more police on the beat. There are no votes to be had by spending money on jails so politicians don't want to send people to jail. Judges don't like being told how to sentence people, especially by politicians. Judges make judgements, based on all the information, politicians pander to the electorate based on their perception of what the electorate want. Usually this is what The Sun tells them to want. Forcing judges to send somebody to jail for 10 years for carrying a blade and locking them up without chance of parole for slashing someone might be what a paranoid and ignorant public want, but it's a ridiculous notion. Apart from it being against the European Convention on Human Rights, it would upset the judiciary who would be curtailed in making proper judgements and ruin politicians chances of being re-elected! How do you control a man in prison who has no chance of getting out and so has NOTHING to lose? A man who has already used a blade on someone, a dangerous man then? How much pay would you need to do the job of putting him in his cell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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