What can you say when a public servant, who's primary aim should be the protection of the public from dangerous convicted criminals, makes the complaint that
'society is too "risk-averse" to allow '
life term' prisoners to be released early from jail'.
What sort of idiot, apparently believes that the public should be prepared to take risks and let so called '
lifers' i.e. murderers, serial rapists, ever dangerous paedophiles etc out on the street early?
Well the UK Parole Board chairman Sir David Latham, is named in the story as stating that the drop in the proportion of
'life-term' inmates who were freed was an "
over-reaction" According to the story, over the past five years, the proportion of life sentence prisoners who have successfully applied for release has dropped from about 35% to 15%. Sir David said this was an "
over-reaction" when re-offending rates had remained stable at between 1% and 2%.
He raised the prospect that his interview would be "distorted" by the press but said an open debate on the issue was needed ..... it almost beggars belief that someone in his position wants 'life-term' prisoners released faster. I would have thought that 35% was far too high, and that something between 5 -10% would be more in line with what we as a public want let out,
What's worse, is the irony that these released prisoners are described as 'life-term' inmates, when they patently are not .... its part of the great liberal con played on the rest of us, that we continue to describe fixed term sentences as '
life', when they are patently not, else I wouldn't have a story to blog on.
