Asbo-style Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) that can restrict criminals' movements after they are released from prison are coming into force.
Civil VOOs are intended to help cut re-offending by banning criminals from certain places or from contacting particular people for up to five years.
I'm speechless. I'm in shock. MPs are on holiday and this slips out? Knee-jerking populism trying to regain public confidence by an attack upon civil liberties. It's trying to continue the imprisonment after release from custody. A sentence that does not end soon becomes breathless. Up to 5 years in prison for a so-called civil offence? It used to be imprisonment was imposed for criminal law offences.
Next week the parking wardens with the power to impose 12 months imprisonment for illegal parking?
This Voodoo nonsense is primitive witchdoctoring.
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 Violent offender orders
