There's no sense in the short sharp shock
Short prison sentences are not as effective as community penalties, say new figures: why isn't the government listening?
By Jon Collins
"Amid widespread criticism of their proposals for Titan prisons, the release of the latest reoffending statistics has brought some rare good news for the Ministry of Justice. The figures reveal that the overall reoffending rate for adults has fallen from 44% in 2000 to 39% in 2006, with all three measures of adult reoffending – the proportion of offenders who reoffend, the frequency of reoffending and the severity of reoffending – showing significant reductions during this period..."
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
1 comment:
When exactly DO the government listen to anybody? They don'r even listen to their own commissioned reports. Remember a while ago the government commissioned a report on the dangers of smoking cannabis; the report recommended that cannabis posed no real threat and that it should remain classified as it was. What did Gordon Braunschweiger do? Totaly ignored the finding and recommendations thus wasting all that public money spent on the commission. Tosser.
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