Posted on 05/28/2023 11:40:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Minister for Justice has said too many people are being sent to jail for minor offenses by the district court.
Simon Harris told RTÉ’s This Week that support needs to be provided to district court judges about the sentencing options available to them. “I have spoken to district court judges during my tenure in terms of the suite of options available to them,” he said.
However, the minister defended plans to increase prison capacity, as a means of dealing with overcrowding. He said increased capacity was required to modernize prison facilities, and also to recognize that people need to serve longer sentences for heinous crimes.
“I believe there are some heinous crimes for which people are not receiving long enough sentences. I’ve been working on a policy around minimum tariffs, which means if you do carry out a heinous crime like a murder or child sex abuse that a judge can set a minimum tariff before you can be eligible for parole,” the minister said.
On the subject of garda recruitment, Minister Harris said it remains a Government commitment to recruit 1,000 gardaí by the end of the year. …
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While they let real criminals go, I would bet.
Anarcho-tyranny.
“I believe there are some heinous crimes for which people are not receiving long enough sentences like murder or child sex abuse.”
Might do ok increasing the sentences for murder, but the Leftists in DC (Ukraine War supporters) won’t like doing the same for child sex abuse.
This is the country that wouldn’t let priests drive to their own parish churches during “COVID”.
> The Minister for Justice has said too many people are being sent to jail for minor offenses by the district court. <
Ireland has seen a considerable uptick in Muslim immigration in recent years.
Am I saying that there’s a connection here? Of course not.
Just set your shoplifting limit to $1,000 before it is a serious crime and watch crime DROP like a rock. Look to the USA for instructive examples of how we eliminated petty crime when we did that across the country.
Ireland is basically Massachusetts with funny accents.
Massachusetts is basically Ireland with funny accents.
“You loot… we shoot” should be part of America’s criminal justice system.
Penalty rooms are possible.
You have a choice Mr. Arrested Person, spend 8 hours in a penalty room within 72 hours and 100 hours in the next 30 days or you will go to trial and might have to spend 30 days continuously in jail.
Here is your enrollment card with your picture on it. Just take it to the check-in desk of a penalty room to enroll.
Under a penalty room system there is no need to provide a public defender, jail health care or meal service.
Probably,
All “justice” systems have a political and economic component to them.
Do not assume any to be purely logical/rational, where policy is driven by empirical analysis regards ROI and risk.
Why do you think pot is a schedule one drug? WTF is a hate crime vs. all other crimes? How can a protestor that never even entered the capital be in prison on a 18 year sentence post J6? Why does a cop that violated no policies at the time by putting his knee on a huge powerful mans neck, who had a rap sheet with multiple violent offences, was high on several drugs, using counterfeit money and resisting arrest go to prison? General Flynn was destroyed for lying to a federal agent, supposedly. Yet HRC running an unauthorized server from her home, lying about it, destroying evidence, gets let go without anything? Isn’t it time for Trump to be indicted again?
Politics and economics are part of every justice system.
But when the people no longer care, or even support the unfair treatment of another group, things start to get crazy. When the most basic ideas of our “republic” and the rights people have no loger matter, it starts to become dangerous. The politician is only constrained by the masses and what they will tolerate, because if given the chance, those in power would shoot someone which poses a threat to them in the back of the head even here in the US.
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