Continuing the theme of angry emithers that I get from time to time, I’ve had a couple of very good ones from a chap who wishes to be known as the Equine Pimp. I’m not sure how lucrative the horses-for-sex trade is, but he seems to be doing OK.

Anyway, Equime Pimp write…

Mr Angry,

If a person commits a crime and is sentenced to 15 years, how complicated is it to keep them locked up for 15 years?

Why anyone is surprised that offenders who are let out early then re-offend completely beggars belief.

They have committed a crime !!!! They have done something wrong. They have been punished for that crime. Why then turn 15 years in 13 for good behaviour? How good can their behaviour be when they are locked up?

I think good behaviour means, “didn’t start any prison riots”.

Perhaps we should start punishing people with sentences such as, “You are sentenced to 10 years, but if you’re a naughty boy it’ll be 15″, because surely that’s what we’re doing already, in effect?

Simple solution – stop letting people out early at all. No exceptions, no special cases. I don’t care if they seem to have reformed. I don’t care that they have found God and have completely changed as a person and I don’t care if some numpty in a suit decides they are now low risk. What the hell does that even mean?

Ah, the old “I found religion” defence. I’d start looking for God if I was being anally raped by Bubba my psychotic cellmate every day. As above, I think low risk means “unlikely to start any prison riots once released”.

The result of these early releases means that not only has the system failed the people who suffered originally but now a whole new set of people get to suffer at the hands of someone who shouldn’t even be anywhere near them.

Its bad enough that the sentences received in the first place are mostly laughable without adding a complication to the system that quite simply does not need to exist.

People will still re-offend after serving a full term but why add the element of chance into the equation?

The Equine Pimp

Equation? What equation? This would imply some application of logic, or at the very least a full assessment of the factors involved, when clealy this isn’t the case.

At the end of the day they say it’s because the prisons are overcrowded. Simple solution then. Build more prisons, or let’s get back to sending them to Australia.

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