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  • I think there should definitely be more use of community sentences for addicts and those who commit non-violent crimes..

    OTOH I think the rise in prison numbers is genuinely because there is more crime and more violent crime than even 10 years ago.

    Even the “mental patients” are often in prison because they have hurt someone else.

    I remember seeing some hand wringing a few years ago amongst do-gooders that teenagers picked up by TVP’s “Operation Robbery” were self-harming in jail and they were “mentally ill victims”…..

    OK I’d feel sorry for some teenage raver who has got busted with 500 pills and goes to YOI for their first time; but the youths nicked on Operation Robbery had (as the name suggests) been nicked for taking property off other youths using violence – they do the crime, so they can do the time…

    IME although friends of mine have gone down for daft things like non-payment of traffic fines or minor pill dealing, and I know of people who got fitted up because they were habitually “bending the rules” a lot of people I know who have gone to prison have done so because they have hurt others; either by violence or burgling peoples houses…

    I often hear of fights where someone has beaten the crap out of their rival (to the point of serious injury) in full view of CCTV – the victorious fighter often then make no effort to evade capture; some even turn themselves in. They know they are going to HMP but they don’t care…

    and if people are going to hurt and kill others then they should lose their freedom for years – more recently I’ve noticed the “wannabe gangstas/hard men” are actually getting longer tarrifs like 20-30 years for their murders which seems reasonable in a country without a death penalty.

    I also think manslaughter tarrifs should increase to try and discourage the fighting culture…

    IMO short prison sentences should be to rehabilitate but longer ones are to take away someones youth and age them to the point where they are not capable to reoffend

    OTOH I don’t think all young men are born evil and do this sort of crime for fun; it is when they have lost all hope for their own lives and are living in a prison of their own minds anyway…

    it is perhaps this that society needs to deal with as much as putting people inside…

    Auch wenn du am Abgrund stehst, und gar nichts mehr verstehst,
    wachen Engel über dich, halten dich im Licht und lassen dich nie fallen.

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