The original article isbehind a paywall (higher than 12ft): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/judges-told-not-to-jail-rapists-as-prisons-are-full-2tfgb2czs
Maybe they should stop trying to jail protesters and make room for actual criminals.
Fuck. This is so right and so depressing. I don’t understand how the Tory Home secs do the mental gymnastics required to accept this.
Rapists are not a threat to daddies who own BP
A blue haired chick with her soybiy “boyfriend” laying down on a highway is a national security incident though and requires a forceful action front the state.
You wouldn’t want daddies’ feelz hurt now, would you?
Convert parliament into a prison. Most of the inmates are already there.
Time to start sending people to rehab instead
Or Australia again
Just don’t send them to America. We have too many republicans already.
I am expecting the announcement of a moon colony at any moment now.
A sub-sea colony would be more interesting
*whispers: *Australia
Whispers back not a chance, we don’t want 'em
Didn’t the government just announce longer/more custodial sentences for shoplifters?! Free the rapists but lock up the petty thieves.
If I was a betting man, I would put money on them soon enough blaming leftie lawyers for the forthcoming downturn in custodial sentences.
Sounds like the time for crime is now (:
The prison population has grown since then – to more than 88,000
Prison-build revolution continues with construction of new Yorkshire jail
Published 3 August 2022
Shovels to break ground on new prison this autumn
Construction to boost local economy with hundreds of jobs
Work signals latest major step toward 20,000 new prison placesIf you take too long to get caught, might wind up in one of those new cells, though.
Here’s the Times article https://archive.ph/LJ010
The government’s pledge to build 20,000 new prison places by the mid-2020s, which was a key Conservative manifesto pledge at the 2019 election, has been quietly dropped. Less than half will have been delivered by March 2025, according to official projections. So far, 5,500 places have been delivered. Plans for three new prisons in Lancashire, Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire have all been delayed owing to problems gaining planning permission.
If people want more prisons, they should have them built in their neighbourhood, so it’s fair.
Half-baked idea: Rather than not putting people in, start letting long-servers out to make room.
Lots of problems with it, sure, hence half-baked, but there must be quite a few long servers whose early release would be less harmful than letting the unimprisoned receive no punishment (or even extended inconvenience) at all.
Or are prisons already full of people who are more harm than the people we can’t fit in there any more?
I mean, if hospitals can kick people out when they need the bed…
Even better, let everyone in there for drug offenses, sex work, and no violent crime out.
I realize this is a bit off topic, but do UK’s judges still use those fake wigs today? I know that they did in back when the US split off, but I just wondering if they still do or if this is just a relevant stock photo.
Yeah, they’re still worn by higher court judges here.
Barristers too. (In the UK barristers are the lawyers who argue in court, solicitors are the lawyers who do the paperwork and find barristers for clients who need a hearing in court.)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Judges have been told to delay the sentencing of convicted criminals currently on bail – including rapists and burglars – because prisons are full, according to a report.
Earlier this year, in a court of appeal case, Edis said that for offences which attract shorter terms, judges and magistrates should consider imposing suspended sentences given “current prison population levels”.
Last year, the government announced Operation Safeguard, the emergency use of 400 police cells to hold inmates.
To much criticism, it recently said it would seek to rent prison cells in foreign countries to alleviate the squeeze in England and Wales.
In his court of appeal judgment in March, Edis cited a letter from the then justice secretary, Dominic Raab, which said: “Detention would be harsher than before on account of high occupancy levels, reduced access to rehabilitation programmes and the possibility of prisoners being detained further away from home.”
Speaking to Times Radio, the health secretary, Steve Barclay, refused to confirm or deny that judges had been told not to send some convicted criminals to jail owing to prisons nearing capacity but acknowledged prisons were under “huge pressure”.
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Fucking clown show.
Same issue has been going on in Ireland (RoI). It’s disturbing.
