[Margaret Pilkington]

I wonder what the crime figures are in China???
And what methods they use to deal with their criminals.

Prison has to be unpleasant for it to be a deterrent.......at the moment it seems that it is not that unpleasant...as long as you can rub along with the other inmates there.

I would hazard a guess that prison is more of punishment to the families of the criminals than it is to the criminals.

Maybe we should ship these thugs off to some uninhabited Hebridean Island
give them food for a week and then let them sort themselves out.......but then I am sure that would contravene some aspect of their Human Rights as laid down by the EU.