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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:21 pm    Post subject: Dont Fill Jails Reply with quote

A man who downloaded child pornography to his computer has avoided jail after the home secretary asked judges to limit prison terms due to overcrowding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6299727.stm

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Looks like it's sent out the wrong image and message to the courts and judges?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The law of unintended consequences must be alive and well in Mold.

Silly Home Secretary, mischievous Judge or something else altogether?

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get these boats sorted or get 4 in a cell.
I'm sure they could get 2 sets of bunk beds in each cell.
Problem sorted!!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Dont Fill Jails Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
A man who downloaded child pornography to his computer has avoided jail after the home secretary asked judges to limit prison terms due to overcrowding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6299727.stm

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Looks like it's sent out the wrong image and message to the courts and judges?


Does this mean the next pedo who downloads stuff can expect to be back home with only a two-year suspended sentence? Not much of a deterrent, is it? Heard a good comment on the JV show at lunchtime today to the effect that HMG should rent jail space from the Greeks - now that would be a deterrent. Why not go further and ask the Turks as well - anyone see "Midnight Express"? Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it me, or did this change of policy come about just as the police were closing in on the senior Labour party figures involved in the cash scandal? Are they trying to avoid going to jail if & when they are convicted?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have no time for paedophiles, but the coverage that this received was out of all proportion, bearing in mind that a thug who beat a man unconscious and then stamped on his head also received a non-custodial sentence on the same day.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Royal editor of News of the World is jailed for four months for illegally obtaining info, whilst paedophiles escape jail or receive bail because the jails are full.

Eh?

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Ella Sailyour



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Dont Fill Jails Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
A man who downloaded child pornography to his computer has avoided jail after the home secretary asked judges to limit prison terms due to overcrowding....

Looks like it's sent out the wrong image and message to the courts and judges?


Er......... Right.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A judge in Liverpool said Prison overcrowding is not my concern and sent a drug dealer down.
Good on him.
Get 4 in a cell...as long as they are off the streets that is all that matters
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A judge in Liverpool said Prison overcrowding is not my concern and sent a drug dealer down.
Good on him.
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Quite right, too. Judges are there to pass sentences where called for. Allocation of prison places is an administrative matter.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very interesting discussion on JV right now re four possible candidates for one prison cell.

No right or wrong answer, of course, but I'd send the drunk driver.

Other candidates are Royal editor of News of the World, man downloading child porn and perpetrator of pub brawl.

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