I have long held the view the the problems with the English justice system doesn't lie with the general law itself, but rather the awful laws relating to sentencing powers granted to judges and the crap the follows in order to accomdate prison overcrowding. Alas, here again we have another absurd decision, courtesy of BBC News..... You can't tell me that it's outside the financial capability of the British Government to build a couple of new prisons to house turd like this.
The British already have the highest prison population in Europe. If it isn't safe to release this guy yet they have to, it's probably because they're locking up the wrong type of people in the first place.
Short sentences are an idiocy. All prison does to a person is make them more criminal than they were before they went in.
Hmm, is that not a contradiction? You're saying that short punishments are not beneficial ....and long punishments are ....not beneficial???????
Long ones are, short ones arn't. Locking people up who need locking up for the safety of others is fine. But sending someone away for a short time as a punishment is total stupidity. Due to the system and those people you would be locked up with you are likely to be made into a larger, not smaller criminal after doing time. The idea is, you send someone down and they are supposed to think 'Ahh i hate being locked up, I'll behave in future' but all that really happens is the person gains an unbelievable amount of criminal knowledge and a reaffirmation that all he will ever be is a criminal
They need to release a drug offender (or anyone only being a threat to their own health) to make room for a "threat to society" like a terrorist. They should do this on a one-for-one basis in every country IMO.
