The Grey Man wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:42:39 +0000, Bill Wright
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.

Mostly with junkies and potheads who would be better off on NHS dope.

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............