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Just watching the news and I find to my horror that a guy who downloaded child porn has been in front of a judge is back home. The reason being that the jails are too full so The Honourable John Reid sent out letters and guidelines that only the serious criminal and the dangerous should only be jailed. Now hang on I would have thought that downloading child porn would make this guy dangerous. The sentance 6 months yes 6 months and that is suspended for 2 years and what comes from the court its the home offices fault. What ever happened to "do the crime do the time" did it go the way of the Dodo? What a screwed up way to run the criminal justice system.

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prisons are full because IMO they got thier priorities wrong and fill them with non payments of fines and other minor crimes .. I agree spug this is absurd ..just seen it myself

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I am speechless 'and that is a first', why do the powers that be always start at the wrong end? why not chuck a few non payment of fine prisoners, who find it more convenient to pay the fine with a bit of porridge. To initiate a new directive by letting a paedeofile off is nothing short of lunacy.

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Here is the Story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6299727.stm

IT does'nt supprise me.:mad:

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whats worse is the guy in question was on the news with his wife sat by him defending the fookin judge for lettin him off:mad: :mad:

HELLO........................

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Because of Reid's new guidelines, the Suffolk strangler will probably only get community service, because killing five women wasn't persistent enough.

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lord falcolner was on newsnight,basically saying the judge was working to guidelines put in long ago. so that makes it ok?:mad:

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I say put convicts to work in chain gangs...building more damn prisons.

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thats not the solution-so they say pmsl. it was also said on the programme that lookin at calculations the 8000 extra prison places that will be created by 2012 are TOTALLY INADEQUATE for the projected prison population then.:confused:

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ERE ERE BUT THEN THATS EXTRA COST TO STAFF THEM....

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no it aint when you think about it,on a chain gang theres only 2 or 3 staff, theres more than that on 1 wing in a prison.

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No because there wouldn't be any staff, as I would make them build it on an uninhabited Scottish island.

Supplies would be dropped off weekly with more new inmates.

Let the buggers police themselves and try and learn some respect for other people.

The only staff needed would be a man in a boat with a gun.:)

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Put garinda in charge of the chain gang 'cashy', there will be a new nick every week, or better still get Gail and garinda to set them to work on Panecticons, that should be enough to cure even the most hardened re-offender.:D

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It'd be more use than them sat on their arses playing on their Play Stations all day, or sewing mail bags. They'd be learning a useful skill.

Vinegar tits Vera from Prisoner in Cell Block H would have nothing on me. I'd teach those lags some respect.:D

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crush peadophiles skulls under large rocks, would save the expense of building anyway.