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I am no fan of the way our Prisons are run to begin with, but there has to be a system in place for graduating people who are due to be released having served their time. (How much time people get is another argument and I find myself in Sweet Peas camp when it comes to length of sentence etc).
However, having served their time, then people are released and we need to look at how it is handled.
The USA tend to go for half way houses, prisoners are not given time in open prisons or day release from none open prisons. They leave prison but are compelled to reside in half way houses under pretty strict reporting regimes, and are generally supported by parole officers as they adjust to life outside.
This is not a perfect system by any means but is another method to consider.
However, in the UK, our sentencing and post sentence policies are very much Governed by finance. We see Judges imposing trivial sentences for serious crimes (serious to the victims for sure).
We see Murderers (therefore on license for ever), released or placed in open prison regimes, even though, as was the case with the so called "Skull Cracker" they are considered dangerous.
Given that they are on license and therefore could be held for the rest of their natural life, surely any assessment that regards them as still being a danger to the public, should be enough to prevent them being considered for release?
We need more prisons, and a professional prison service restored, not virtual holiday camps run by the lowest bidder (G4S) who's erstwhile record is hardly one to look up to, or SERCO who like G4S, are already in trouble for ripping off the Government over their tagging systems.
Tougher sentences, stronger work towards rehabilitation, but not all the home comforts unless earned.
That takes a Government willing to invest in the UK and things that matter to the ordinary man and woman. So with Labour and the Cons, nothing will change, just the rhetoric.