So Ken Clarke thinks that the newspapers are to blame for the size of the prison population, saying it’s their fault that thousands of criminals are in jail needlessly.
These are the same ‘needlessly jailed’ criminals who’ve had chance after chance of avoiding jail by being given so-called ‘community punishments’ and include the 52812 criminals who’ve been given more than one ‘community punishment’ in a single year, a figure highlighted by MP Mr Pritl Patel who also revealed that one such criminal had received no less than 20 ‘community punishments’, all of which had manifestly failed to either reform him or turn him away from offending.
These are facts which Mr Clarke, in his zeal to do anything rather than jail criminals, would prefer to ignore as it doesn’t conform to his misguided, skewered view of ‘justice’.
The sad fact is that justice will not prevail, nor will the inexorable rise in criminal behaviour be reduced while we have a ‘Justice Secretary’ who does not believe in punishment.
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