I knew 2007 was going to be a very interesting year for Britain, but I really didn't expect so much to have already happened. It's not even the end of January and yet we already have the melt down of law and order in this country, but guess what, it's all for the benefit of the taxpayer.
Desperate Ministers will beg judges to stop sending criminals to prisons - because they are full.
A letter will be sent to courts across the country admitting that jails are officially in crisis.
It pleads for only the most violent or dangerous criminals to be given a custodial sentence. Magistrates are also being asked to allow bail to all but the most serious crime suspects.
It urges that suspects such as burglars be bailed rather than remanded and follows on from Mr Reid's recent statement that taxpayers' money should not be 'squandered' on locking up or monitoring offenders who would be better punished in the community.
Ah, so as usual it is for our benefit that criminals will be allowed to act with impunity!
How many additional victims will be created due to the incompetence of this Government? Should all victims of crime be able to sue the Government for negligence when they are attacked by someone who should have been behind bars. No wonder the Government has no interest in mandatory sentencing when it needs to change the rules on a daily basis.
Desperate Ministers will beg judges to stop sending criminals to prisons - because they are full.
A letter will be sent to courts across the country admitting that jails are officially in crisis.
It pleads for only the most violent or dangerous criminals to be given a custodial sentence. Magistrates are also being asked to allow bail to all but the most serious crime suspects.
It urges that suspects such as burglars be bailed rather than remanded and follows on from Mr Reid's recent statement that taxpayers' money should not be 'squandered' on locking up or monitoring offenders who would be better punished in the community.
Ah, so as usual it is for our benefit that criminals will be allowed to act with impunity!
How many additional victims will be created due to the incompetence of this Government? Should all victims of crime be able to sue the Government for negligence when they are attacked by someone who should have been behind bars. No wonder the Government has no interest in mandatory sentencing when it needs to change the rules on a daily basis.
Mr Reid has promised that there will be an additional 8000 places in the spring so does that mean offences committed in the next few months will receive lesser sentences than those later on in the year?
And when will the new prison places be available, just in time for the May elections perhaps?
And one final question, why the sudden massive explosion in the prison population, in the number of people awaiting trial and the number of people who would ordinarily have gone to prison if there had been room? Surely it's not down to, no wait, just let me move this elephant out of the way.
Britain under Nu Labour, criminals never had it so good.
Ministers beg judges - don't jail any more criminals!
And when will the new prison places be available, just in time for the May elections perhaps?
And one final question, why the sudden massive explosion in the prison population, in the number of people awaiting trial and the number of people who would ordinarily have gone to prison if there had been room? Surely it's not down to, no wait, just let me move this elephant out of the way.
Britain under Nu Labour, criminals never had it so good.
Ministers beg judges - don't jail any more criminals!
3 comments:
We should pay foreign countries to imprison our prisoners in their prisons. That way we don't have overcrowded prisons and criminals actually get punished.
It's a good idea and would probably be less than the nearly £400 it costs to keep them overnight in police cells.
The problem is that as a lot of the prisoners are foreign, to put them in foreign prisons would probably constitute deportation and you know where Nu Labour stands on that!
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