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Originally Posted by Derek S
There are a few interesting comments on the Magistrates blog right now.
Basically things are in such a state with the prisons that anyone sentenced to 28 days or less in prison gets immediately turfed out with a payment to help get their lives back on track without seeing the inside of a prison. In some cases people sentenced to 4 months also get punted before going through the gates of prison and compensated for having to sit in the back of a prison van.
Who says crime doesn't pay? |
Now why doesn't any of that surprise me?....
I've been watching UK Border Patrol on Sky lately and it demonstrates perfectly just how cumbersome, wasteful and ineffective parts of our legal 'system' still are despite all those tough talking soundbites issued by numerous Home Secretaries. Vast amounts of time, energy and money spent rounding up illegals only for them to be let go and allowed to abscond because there isn't room to detain them whilst securing the travel documents needed to remove them or whilst they're awaiting the result of appeals... It's absolutely bonkers and is costing us a fortune!!