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Originally Posted by g jones
Just an observation.
The £41k is the top end. It costs around a third for other prisoners.
The £5m for Dale Cregan trial, an incredible 120 police officers was due to the criminal families in attendamce and on trial. Other offenders were also convicted to very long sentences. Some of the worst crime families in Britain. Part of the trial was the rival gangland killing of the Shorts so you had some of fhe worst rival crime families heading up the M61 together plus Cregan and the other criminals in prison vans.
My own view is that life in jail is a tougher sentence than escaping via death row.
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I wouldn't dispute that, but as you may have noticed from the general tenor of this thread, ordinary folk are not happy with the criminal justice system. Cregan may have received a whole life tarriff but he's the exception rather than the rule. Coldblooded murders should warrant a whole life sentence automatically and should be kept in much more spartan conditions. You know as well as I do that this is the view of ordinary people, outside of a little group of chattering class liberals. Unfortunately, your party and the Tories do not reflect our views on the subject.