The pro-crime lobby who run our injustice system have two fixed beliefs.
One is that criminals are victims.
Their misdeeds are not their fault but the inevitable result of non-existent poverty.
They have no personal ability to overcome their backgrounds, and so it would be cruel to punish them.
The other is that prisons are a waste of money, an ‘expensive way of making bad people worse’ as the supposedly Right-wing Tory Home Secretary David Waddington said in 1990.
They would rather not have any prisons at all.
They keep the jails we have only because of tiresome public opinion, and because of newspapers like this one that hold fast to traditional ideas of right and wrong, justice and punishment.
That is why they deliberately run those prisons very badly – they are pointless, apologetic warehouses, largely under the control of the inmates and full of illegal drugs.
Almost nobody is sent to these places until he or she is already a habitual, confirmed criminal.
They are then almost always swiftly released, after learning for certain what they have long suspected, that they have nothing to fear from the police or the courts.
Then the pro-crime liberals write reports pointing out how awful the prisons are (while ignoring the fact that their own ideas have caused this) and urging that even fewer people are sent to them.
As a result, crime increases so much that – despite ultra-liberal guidelines on sentencing – the prisons still fill and overflow.
[…]Last week we saw two court cases which showed exactly what is going on.
[…]Case One concerns Caroline Pattinson (pictured above), an abuser of heroin, which is supposed to be illegal but isn’t in practice.
Pattinson, 34, has committed 207 crimes in 20 years.
These include 108 convictions for theft, many for cruel frauds on pensioners. But until last Tuesday she had never been sent to prison, except on remand.
Now that she has, she’s not worried. Why should she be?
On being sentenced to 30 months (of which she will serve at most 15 months), she mockingly called out: ‘Cushty! Easily done!’
That’s what happens if you leave the secular leftist Labour Party in charge for a while, not that the Conservatives under Cameron are doing anything about it.
WINTERY KNIGHT 