Criminals 'can't be kept in jail just to protect public'

[Fittster]

"Probation watchdog: serious crimes may be price to pay for cutting cost of justice
Murders and other serious crimes committed by prisoners released early from jail may have to be “accepted” by the public as part of attempts to keep down the cost of the criminal justice system, the probation watchdog suggested.

Andrew Bridges questioned whether it was worth keeping thousands of violent and dangerous offenders locked up for longer than the minimum jail term set by a court just to stop a few of them committing new crimes.

Some reoffending — even if it involved “serious” new crimes — could be the price that society had to pay for trying to cut down on the huge cost of the country’s rising prison population, said Mr Bridges, the chief inspector of probation. While acknowledging that prison reduced crime, he described it as a “rather drastic form of crime prevention” and said it was time to consider dealing with more offenders in the community
Telegraph

Prisons make me feel a lot safer than either aircraft carriers or Trident.

[7thCircleAcolyte]

Guam said:

This Arguement ends right here for me "Figures last year showed that dangerous offenders committed 48 murders, rapes and other serious offences in a year while supposedly being monitored by the authorities."

If we want to talk cost efficiencies, how much is a decent rope these days?

Cheers

Why can't we sack the "authorities" that were supposedly monitoring them and use the salary & pension payments to fund more time at Her Majestys pleasure?

And why are we not seizing the assets of criminal scum so that they may pay for their own incarceration? Take their cars, homes, etc and flog them, then prsent them with a bill and credit terms upon release for any remainder?

[BrassMan]

7thCircleAcolyte said:

And why are we not seizing the assets of criminal scum so that they may pay for their own incarceration? Take their cars, homes, etc and flog them, then present them with a bill and credit terms upon release for any remainder?

Don't know about you, but that would put me right off getting a regular job, even if they don't return to surrounding which don't encourage re offending.

Unfortunately, if you want to cut re offending you either keep them locked up (expensive), execute them (dodgey) or try and work with human nature (which is in opposition to our desire for revenge).

And no, I don't have any better ideas.