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what really ****es me off is the courts
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What amuses me is that this standard tabloid kneejerk fact-free theory is incompatible with the raw naked fact that we're sending more people to jail than ever.
From last year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3059183.stm
"More people are jailed in England and Wales than in any other western European country - and more, per capita, than Libya, Malaysia and Burma."
From earlier this year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3496505.stm
"a 71% rise in the prison population between 1991 and 2001 was due to a "misplaced emphasis on toughness", with courts sentencing more people to prison and for longer terms."
Hardly a soft court system, is it?