sootyj
Thursday 14th June 2012 1:59pm [Edited]
51,287 posts
Grrr.
Community based punishment is the safest, cheapest and most effective punishment for compliant offenders. Of whom there are very many. It also has the highest chance of rehabilitation. And unlike wanking or playing on your Xbox for 23 hours lock down it's by no means an easy option. Dredging canals, picking up litter on motorways or industrially cleaning 8 hours a day is pretty tough.
People aren't going to prison who should because theres no space. Thats ridiculous.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 14 2012, 1:42 PM BST
What a very middle class, white collar approach to crime. Sure, you might have swindled loads of vulnerable pensioners out of their life savings and condemned them to live out their last years on Earth in abject poverty and squalor, but you didn't punch a Chav on a Saturday night, so off you go.
And such an arrogance. There are plenty of working class TV license dodgers, benefit fraudsters,not to mention dodgy accountants wasting cell spaces.
And plenty of wealthy wife beater, drunk punchers andassorted other thugs. Who should be locked up.
Assuming rich people don't hit people. Exposes your shallow Heat magazine news sensibilities.
Actually not sure whilst I'm still banging on about this, but what the hell.
In my first job as a care assisstant in a big day centre for the learning dissabled. I got matched up with a guy doing community service for affray and car theft and well a bit of a chav. Apart from the mild offence that my job was essentially considered a punishment. He turned up on time, did his job and seemed to get something from it.