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radicalcrow 66p · June 06, 2018 11:21:21

If short sentences are not working, how about trying longer sentences?
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Kitty Bond 89p · June 06, 2018 11:41:40

How about freeing up prison spaces and having longer prison sentences
you could also make it less cosy inside.

That hookhanded terrorist preacher we eventually deported not so long ago
who is now imprisoned in the US has asked the human rights courts if
he can be sent back to a UK prison as they are nicer and let him keep
his hook hands of which were removed as soon as he was imprisoned in
the US.

Might I suggest we deport all immigrant criminals of his calibre and similar-
their human rights are not our concern and we as tax payers shouldn't have to
pay for their incarceration.
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Kitty Bond 89p · June 06, 2018 11:21:36

I should imagine there are those who even reoffend to basically get back inside
because life in prison is better for them then life outside for some.
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radicalcrow 66p · June 06, 2018 11:44:25

" An investment of approximately £50 million a year over five years would enable up to 10,000 of the most prolific drug-addicted offenders to participate in the Second Chance Programme ". Doing the math, this is an expenditure of £5000 per offender. Seriously? This covers a stay in secure accommodation to detox and then in a residential therapeutic community. For how long? Do these facilities exist or would they need to be built and staffed? For £5000 per offender. This proposal needs a lot more detail to make any sense, if it ever does.
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itdoesntaddup 140p · June 06, 2018 12:39:03

It seems sensible to try a pilot scheme in one area of the country. Ensure it is well staffed, rather than setting it up to fail. Then if it works, you have a basis to roll it out, with some staff with experience to help do so. If it fails, then the cost will have been modest, and we will be looking for other solutions. Indeed, if others wish to propose solutions, why not let them be tried in different areas of the country, to see which are effective? Long sentences in London, supervised drug therapy in Leeds.
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Dorothea43 107p · June 06, 2018 15:11:31

We've just had a dumb oaf on the Daily Politics saying the causes of crime are gangs - demonstrating he's unable to grasp the meaning of simple English words or knows what a synonym is. The causes of crime have been known for decades: they start in childhood where vulnerable children are reared by inadequate, stupid, feckless or unlucky parents. The infamous Coalition of callous fools cut the funding for the Sure Start nurseries that were making progress with this very issue - caring for children and educating parents. Not something private nurseries have the will, the expertise, the sense of responsibility or the intelligence to do. The ultimate causes of our present anarchy on the streets are narcissistic ministers travelling about in armoured limos- selfishness - a simple word that even an MP can understand.
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