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Originally Posted by Mick
It's not a prison capacity issue - its all about social order and society as a whole. There is little respect shown for people and their property these days.
I'd hate to be in the Police force right now - chasing and catching criminals, day in, day out, for the courts to then throw them back out on to the streets for them to do it again and again and it's just one vicious cycle.
Then when they do get eventually sent to prison, their sentence is cut.
Lesson learned? I think not.
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Just one reason why my Chief Inspector BIL is emigrating like so many of his colleagues. It's a great shame that the Police are sandwiched in the middle of inept politicians and a hugely cumbersome legal process.
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It seems to me that Blair wanted to lock more people up but, as always, Brown wasn't going to shell out for the prisons in which to put these people. The forecasts predicted this problem apparently but were ignored. Great!
I notice Brown's talking increasingly toughly on issues such as law & order so I wonder whether when he's no longer chancellor he'll expect money to be ploughed into prison places or whether it's just so much hot air from a guy who's worried his grip on power will be shortlived.