Telegraph publishes alarmist nonsense to smear Labour
It would seem that common sense and decency and honest journalism has gone out of the window at the offices of the Telegraph. In the run up to the next General Election the Tories have decided to adopt scare mongering tactics in an attempt to frighten the general public. And the Telegraph has taken on the role of unthinking megaphone, to shout out the garbled Tory message.
Specifically, I refer to this headline Scores of killers who were given life terms released from prison to commit serious crimes
The reality which the Telegraph will not let get in the way of what it sees as a good story, is that less then 3% of lifers go on to commit further serious offences compared with 60-80% of re-offending for lesser crimes committed by ex-prisoners.
Whilst it is tragic when a lifer does go on to seriously re-offend, no system is perfect and the odd one or two will slip through the net of public protection. However, the subject needs to be treated with proportionality and not overreaction by the knee-jerkism effected by the likes of Edward Garnier, shadow justice minister.
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