Labours Justice
Discussion
Tagging does not work. Criminals regularly ignore the fact they are tagged and breach conditions of their bail/orders. At any time I may be looking at 30 or 40 breaches of bail or tagging orders every month, in a town of a population of around 100,000. Some from offenders who breach on a daily basis.
Police are then tasked to round them up and they spend a night in police cells for production in court the following day where they produce a sob story for the reasons of breach and are then let go again.
When eventually they are rounded, the courts simply slap their wrists and re-institute their tagging orders that are again breached the very same day because generally, the courts are reluctant to sentence with deterrent sentences because the prisons are already heaving to bursting point.
Jasandjules said:
Plenty of room in jail for little old ladies who don't pay council tax.
No there aren't. Hardly any are in there. Have a look at the National Office Of Statistics / Ministry Of Justice for prison statistics. There aren't enough prison spaces. They are obviously going to find other ways to ease this. No Government wants to build prisons whilst the problem develops under their watch.
Prisons being so full is causing a lot of trouble in the Justice system as a whole, and especially in the ability of Prisons to rehabilitate people to live crime free when they're released.
There is still spare capacity in a lot of the low catagory, open prisons, and because of this higher risk prisoners are being given Catagory D status so they can spend the last few weeks there when normally they would not be suitable.
Prisoners who misbehave in Prison are no longer given additional days or having their early release privelages removed, which is causing a discipline problem.
Prisoners considered too violent for Home Detention Curfew (tagging) early release are being released early anyway under the 18 day rule, without needing to be tagged!
All the while the support services inside prison and out (such as Probation, who're responsible for monitoring released prisoners) are running beyond capacity and therefore find it very difficult to deal with offenders breaking release conditions.
Whilst the prison system is so full the entire workings of the prison system, from sentencing through rehabilition to supervision is totally and utterly compromised.
There is still spare capacity in a lot of the low catagory, open prisons, and because of this higher risk prisoners are being given Catagory D status so they can spend the last few weeks there when normally they would not be suitable.
Prisoners who misbehave in Prison are no longer given additional days or having their early release privelages removed, which is causing a discipline problem.
Prisoners considered too violent for Home Detention Curfew (tagging) early release are being released early anyway under the 18 day rule, without needing to be tagged!
All the while the support services inside prison and out (such as Probation, who're responsible for monitoring released prisoners) are running beyond capacity and therefore find it very difficult to deal with offenders breaking release conditions.
Whilst the prison system is so full the entire workings of the prison system, from sentencing through rehabilition to supervision is totally and utterly compromised.
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