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This makes me feel humbled and sad. It reinforced what I already believed.

Murder is a crime that should be penalised with life in prison, without parol. Too many murderers have been released and re-offended, sometimes committing murder again.

If our government starts listening to victims, front line Police Officers, and the law-abiding majority, instead of lawyers, the liberal elite,and unrepresentative minority pressure groups, we might begin to get it right in criminal justice. Prison is absolutely necessary, and works, for serious and persistent offenders, BUT only if appropriate sentencing is passed by the courts, and served in full by the criminals.

This makes me feel angry.

I served in the UK police for almost 25 years. I NEVER encountered a criminal who had been successfully rehabilitated by prison. Also, very few of them had even been punished by being incarcerated. It was just a blip on their radar and whilst it stopped them committing crime during their sentence, many of them learned to hone their skills in prison. Although prison is a stressful environment, those on the inside have a massive reduction in everyday stress during their time inside. They have access to courses and places are allocated 'in case they want to undertake them' while deserving people such as nurses, fire fighters and police officers, often cannot take those courses as they are oversubscribed.
Thousands of crimes are initiated and supervised from inside using mobile phones and computers. BUT the greatest sin is that there are many, many (often public funded) organisations, committees and associations who are tripping over themselves to help the poor accused or the unfortunate convicted person but, apart from the little that the police are able to do, the only agency that helps the outrageous number of victims is Victim Support AND THEY ARE A CHARITY. Whose rights count here? Certainly not the rights of the moral majority. The greater part of society who do not commit crime but pay for it in the following ways. We pay for preventing crime, for insuring against it, for the cost of it, for the police investigation of it, for the temporary detention of suspects,for the prosecution of criminals, for the defence of criminals, for looking after their dependants, for the cost of appeals, for the cost of applying punishments, for the social service input, for the probation service input, for the rehab and training of those about to be released,and worst of all we pay for them to complain against the system. I am at a loss as to what more we can do for the poor unfortunate criminal fraternity.

We ahouldn't ever accuse God of taking life.....That is Slander (Satanic)

This makes me feel humbled. It reinforced what I already believed.

Considering how many hundreds of years it has taken to develop a system of law based on what we morally see as right or wrong, it seems a shame that in the last 20 years or so that so many laws have been changed (or made for the worse I.M.O).
I am noticing that youths of today do not seem to care about getting into trouble with the police as the punishments are so light that is does not deter them from the crimes.

I was born in Scotland, joined HM Forces in my teens, spent most of my career living in England and are proud to call myself British. What I'm not proud of is the many ways in which our nation is run into the ground. One of which is the poor excuse for a judicial system which beggars belief, defies logic and is an all round general joke which makes a mockery out of Britain on the world stage!
I'm not going to get into the subject of our membership in the EU but if anybody should dictate what is law then it is the people that live there, pay the taxes, vote for the MP's that influence these decisions.
Getting down to the nitty gritty of criminals, I'm sorry, but these people who decide to commit crimes lose out on their human rights the minute they make that decision. We are too soft and need to toughen up, Jean Taylor hit the nail on the head with "there is no deterrent"! Jail time is laughable and a free holiday/way of life for some. I have many ideas for deterrents which involves pain but it all comes down to fear, if there is no fear of the consequences then there is no real deterrent for a person not to commit the crime in the first place and certainly not to rehabilitate. I'm all for considering giving someone a second chance but for them to appreciate the opportunity to rehabilitate then you must make the other option nothing short of very undesirable puting it nicely.
Lets get some nuts again and make the hard decisions that nobody wants to do but the ones we know will work!

It reinforced what I already believed.

Yes, unless it's a motorist.

More important is the erratic nature of sentacing which is almost akin to the NHS postcode lottery.