It's a fact, I guess, that Alasdair Palmer is a dickhead!
The lock 'em up and throw away the key rationale is...
"The advantage of prison is that while criminals are locked up, they cannot commit any crimes. When they are in the community, serving "alternative sentences", they can".
"As a result, those alternatives would have to be very effective at reforming criminals if they were to cut crime as effectively as putting criminals in prison".
Does prison effectively cut crime as is being claimed? Whilst it is conceded that someone who is in prison cannot commit a crime outside during the sentence, unless prison acts as an individual and general deterrent then prison does not work and is only a stop gap measure. A more permanent solution is required.
"Ken Pease, a professor at University College London, calculates that if each community sentence was replaced by a month in custody, there would be 60,000 fewer offences a year. The Justice Secretary has ignored that fact".
Since when has a guesstimate become a fact?
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.
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