RE: Hmmm4 Sep 2024 10:40
Good morning Tesla, Slug is an imbecile, you're not.
The way to think about the criminal justice system is thus.
We must want the same justice for our parents, children and loved ones, as for people we don't know.
In other words you can't be carried away with Draconian penalties, that you wouldn't apply to the people you know.
Agreed we need more prisons, and no government is going to build enough.
A few years ago I read an article suggesting that if we routinely locked up offender's who were convicted of six crimes or more, then we would require a further 80,000 places.
That's unaffordable, so other options have to be looked at