It was announced today that non violent and non sexual offenders in britain could see their sentences halved.
This is in my mind a despicable state of affairs, letting out criminals early simply because the government will not stretch to building a new prison.
Something that worries me immensely in the Uk is the fact that the prison system costs around £40,000 ($80,000) a prisoner per year to maintain. Now considering people are expected to get by on around £8000 ($16,000), and most people do not earn above teh £20,000 till the hit their middle years, you can begin to worry about how exactly ourmoney is being spent.
Personally I think jails are too cushy, human rights protestors have made things easy for those who quite simply do not care about human rights. I am not saying that everyone in prison is that bad, but they have to have done something to get there.
When someone breaks the law they are accepting responsibility for the consequences.
So why is it that we are paying what equates to around £330 a day to keep each prisoner incapacitated?
I worry about this counry sometimes!
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