On 24/01/2012 20:18, The Grey Man wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:42:39 +0000, Bill
wrote:

All burglaries and assaults should result in an automatic custodial
sentence.

Bill

Of course you're right.

Alas, HMG keeps bellyaching on about how our prisons are full and
overcrowded.

It doesn't seem to occur to them to build some more.

Or privatise the whole shooting match.

It's almost as if they want criminals out on the streets............

They fequently say that prison doesn't work and doesn't deter
re-offending. I've always wondered that even if prison doesn't work for
many of those incarcerated, do long sentences deter those that have
never been in trouble from getting into a life of crime in the first place?

SteveW