Re: This sums up our justice system to the full
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
(Post 771284)
Heard it all before...Tory conferences talking about "short, sharp shocks", Wille Whitelaw talking about prison life being conducted at "a brisk pace" etc etc.
Looking at the rights of the home owner is all very well, but the whole British justice system needs reforming root and branch. A toughening up of the judiciary with judges who are willing to punish criminals, rather than feeling sorry for them. An expansion of prison building with prisoners kept in much more spartan conditions than now. A wholesale ratcheting up of sentences - real life terms for murder, 30-40 year sentences for serious assaults etc. Can't see all that happening under a lightweight Blair-a-like!
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The problem is we have to put up with the Guardian reading human rights brigade Wynonie, which is a pain in itself. I have often said that the current law books should be piled high on the green out side parliament and put to the torch, and replaced by new laws tailored for the 21st century not the middle ages. We may not like a lot the Yanks do but in a lot of cases they get their sentencing right, if a criminal gets life in the states,it means life. I often laugh at sentences give here, when they say somebody is given a life sentence and must serve a minimum of 18 years, so why call it life, when it quite obviously isn't. I also think that the word concurrently be deleted from the law books, if you commit 4 crimes and get six months on each count, to me you get 2 years end of
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