Let us hope that the Justice Secretary also pushes to revoke Chris Grayling's 'punishment requirement in every community order' legislation (reproduced as s.208(10 Sentencing Act 2020). This is outdated, unfair and creates overloaded orders, particularly for the vulnerable. If the purpose of the sentence is to rehabilitate, let the probation resources work on that - without unpaid work or a curfew plonked on top just for the sake of it! The get-out clause is too complex. Prison as a sanction for those who comply with their rehab requirements but don't have the discipline to attend unpaid work is crazy. It is time for the section to go.
Thank you, Joshua: as so many of us, of course also sarcastically, have been saying for SO LONG- who would have thought it? Dish out juicy contracts to private entities without due diligence, or in spite of adverse appraisals- not to mention the urgings of all professional service deliverers-and then- surprise, surprise- goodbye, viable, cost effective AND proven options to prison. BUT: how very good to read, unedited and unabridged , FINALLY, a Justice Secretary telling it as it is. But: what to do about this? Early release? Curbs upon sentencing inflation? No more ratcheting up of sentencing for the “offence of the week”? No more of Government Ministers and Secretaries of State gratuitously and inaccurately talking of the latest shocking case and the inadequacy of -actually- already swingeing sentences? All of that but what of the resourcing and re- promotion of Probation plus as vital for a healthy and safer community? We are listening, waiting and hoping.
Let us hope that the Justice Secretary also pushes to revoke Chris Grayling's 'punishment requirement in every community order' legislation (reproduced as s.208(10 Sentencing Act 2020). This is outdated, unfair and creates overloaded orders, particularly for the vulnerable. If the purpose of the sentence is to rehabilitate, let the probation resources work on that - without unpaid work or a curfew plonked on top just for the sake of it! The get-out clause is too complex. Prison as a sanction for those who comply with their rehab requirements but don't have the discipline to attend unpaid work is crazy. It is time for the section to go.
Thank you, Joshua: as so many of us, of course also sarcastically, have been saying for SO LONG- who would have thought it? Dish out juicy contracts to private entities without due diligence, or in spite of adverse appraisals- not to mention the urgings of all professional service deliverers-and then- surprise, surprise- goodbye, viable, cost effective AND proven options to prison. BUT: how very good to read, unedited and unabridged , FINALLY, a Justice Secretary telling it as it is. But: what to do about this? Early release? Curbs upon sentencing inflation? No more ratcheting up of sentencing for the “offence of the week”? No more of Government Ministers and Secretaries of State gratuitously and inaccurately talking of the latest shocking case and the inadequacy of -actually- already swingeing sentences? All of that but what of the resourcing and re- promotion of Probation plus as vital for a healthy and safer community? We are listening, waiting and hoping.
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