It has been good fun watching tories fervently polishing their law and order credentials in the wake of the recent riots. A case in point is Clwyd West AM Darren Millar who attacked what he considered to be lenient sentencing for a would-be rioter who posted something on Facebook for 20 minutes and got four months in pokey for his trouble.
As much as they lament the inconsistencies in sentencing (and hanker after the return of corporal punishment) you just know that it’s only a matter of time before Justice secretary Ken Clarke points out an inconvenient truth that packing the offenders into prison is unsustainable at best.
According to a few criminologists, imprisonment is also a sure-fire way to give a large number of people an excellent opportunity for first-hand tutelage in real law-breaking.
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