Posted on 03/05/2025 7:16:15 PM PST by grundle
The justice secretary has called for the scrapping of planned changes which would make the background of offenders from minority groups a bigger factor when deciding whether to jail them.
Shabana Mahmood called for the Sentencing Council to reverse course, after the Conservatives accused Labour of overseeing "two-tier justice", in which prison sentences are less likely for ethnic or faith minorities.
On Wednesday, the council - which is independent but sponsored by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) - published new guidelines for judges aimed at avoiding bias and cutting reoffending.
But Mahmood said she would write to its leaders to "register my displeasure and to recommend reversing" the change.
"As someone who is from an ethnic minority background myself, I do not stand for any differential treatment before the law, for anyone of any kind," Mahmood said.
"There will never be a two-tier sentencing approach under my watch."
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1st there already is, this is just codifying it.
2nd you got caught otherwise you would not be saying any of this.
3rd I don’t believe you and believe this will eventually pass through when no one is paying attention.
oh and 4th it is not a claim, anyone can read the guidance it obviously creates multiple tiers of punishment under the law based on gender and skin color.
This is already going on here in the USA in certain cities.
It’s called “restorative justice”.
UK is still toast unfortunately.
Yep. The fact that something like that was openly proposed tells the story. We’re pretty much there ourselves. The tide is changing, I sincerely hope we can keep it up.
I think England is ripe for the picking. Now is the time to steal Canada from their so called “commonwealth”.
Worked for Russia. We should copy the master.
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