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Originally Posted by iSteve
This hits the nail on the head. Finish that off by saying the reason he may well get out early is because of overcrowding in our prisons resulting in sentences being cut short to clear space for the next intake of prisoners and we start to get a clear picture of what's going on.
Solution? Build more prisons. The HRA has nothing to do with it.
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Would you rather this person served longer but the next offender simply goes free because there's no room in our prisons? The reason for people walking free early is prison overcrowding, not the HRA, not the judges.
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Whether prisons are overcrowded is not really a job for the judiciary, their job is to interpret the law and sentence accordinly, they are surpossed to be impartial and even if there were no overcrowding I wonder if we would still see decisions like this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/875729.stm I think we would.