We have too many prisoners, says new PM Starmer

BBC ^ | July 6 | BBC

[RandFan]

Great the Left want to empty the prisons!

So it begins....

[motor_racer]

I note: not “too many criminals”, just “too many prisoners”.

[Williams]

This guy and “disaster” are synonymous.

[Paladin2]

GB has too much Jihad....

[xp38]

This record has been played before.

[Twotone]

Easy. Don’t put them in prison. DEPORT THEM.

[Red Badger]

Hanging prevents that problem.........

[nickcarraway]

Let them all out.

[Billthedrill]

Un-retire the Tower of London. Whack off twenty, thirty heads an hour using shifts. Show your respect for history!

[GOPJ]

I note: not “too many criminals”, just “too many prisoners”.

Bingo!

[sphinx]

Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants to reduce the number of people going to prison through renewed efforts to cut reoffending.

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.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

[GOPJ]

I note: not “too many criminals”, just “too many prisoners”.

Bingo! The State has to pay for 'prisoners - the PEOPLE pay the price for criminals.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants to reduce the number of people going to prison through renewed efforts to cut reoffending.

[SpaceBar]

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.

[chuckee]

When is he going to drop the defund the police shoe? UK is screwed. They wanted it. They got it.

[Liaison]

He was a “human rights” defense barrister so it is not surprising that this the direction he wants to go.

[fuzzylogic]

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.

[SteveinSATX]

Signaling soft on crime policies that is guaranteed to get a lot of innocent people killed ...

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Obviously prison is not the deterrent it should be instead of a family reunion.