If they took the word "sensible" out of their name, I would listen more. If the only solution that organisation has is for longer sentences, then frankly they are just feeding off other peoples misery (the victims) and perpetuating the idea that that might actually work.
There is a place for preventative detention for those that cannot function outside. I would just like to see less of those people being created by "sensible" people.
There is a logistical problem with prisons, if you accommodate larges numbers of the same sort of people, in a confined environment - you will not produce a different type of person when you let them go.... that would be the definition of stupidity wouldn't it? - to expect something different?
We cannot continue to grow our prison population and not have cumulative and snowballing effect.... kids without fathers, families locked into single parenting.... a whole increasing generation of resentment...
This ain't about being soft on offenders, its about our future as a society.....
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