Posted on 07/06/2024 1:08:41 PM PDT by RandFan
Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants to reduce the number of people going to prison through renewed efforts to cut reoffending.
In his first press conference as prime minister, Sir Keir said too many people found themselves back in jail "relatively quickly" after being sent there.
He added that intervening to prevent young people committing knife crime would be an early priority for his new government.
But he said there would be no "overnight solution" to prison overcrowding, adding: "We’ve got too many prisoners, not enough prisons."
It comes after he appointed a businessman as his prisons minister who has previously said only a third of prisoners should be there.
James Timpson, boss of the shoe repair chain which has a policy of recruiting ex-offenders, said in an interview with Channel 4 earlier this year that "we're addicted to punishment”.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
So it begins....
I note: not “too many criminals”, just “too many prisoners”.
This guy and “disaster” are synonymous.
GB has too much Jihad....
This record has been played before.
Easy. Don’t put them in prison. DEPORT THEM.
Hanging prevents that problem.........
Let them all out.
Un-retire the Tower of London. Whack off twenty, thirty heads an hour using shifts. Show your respect for history!
Reducing recidivism would be a very good thing. But it's not as if no one has thought of that before. Does Starmer have bright new idea how to do this? I don't know, but I doubt it. I imagine he wanted a soundbite and that's as far as the thinking has progressed.
Given Labor's supermajority, I suspect they'll default to the usual leftist method of reducing incarceration.
Crime in the UK is about to get a lot worse. London is already a sh*thole, look for the same to come to the rural areas.
The headline makes a blanket assertion, doesn’t even attempt to explain why, then gives the floor to some brit politician who say’s he’ll ‘fix’ it. That’s what passes for political discourse.
When is he going to drop the defund the police shoe? UK is screwed. They wanted it. They got it.
He was a “human rights” defense barrister so it is not surprising that this the direction he wants to go.
It’s my understanding that they didn’t though, I thought the numbers showed more voted for Reform and Labour - but due to the system they received only 4 seats.
That doesn’t seem right.
Signaling soft on crime policies that is guaranteed to get a lot of innocent people killed ...
Obviously prison is not the deterrent it should be instead of a family reunion.
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