Reply to: Makes me mad, it really does

[EternalOptimist]

I didn't think we locked people up for several decades just to try and make their victims' families happy.

that's right. you cut their balls off or hang them by the thumbs with piano wire for that.

it's always important to murder good Christians - you have a much better chance of being forgiven

[Mich the Tester]

I didn't think we locked people up for several decades just to try and make their victims' families happy.

Neither did I.

[d000hg]

I am not sure reducing the benefits of a convicted murder would go very far towards assuaging the grief of the victims' families.

I don't think anything would.

I didn't think we locked people up for several decades just to try and make their victims' families happy.

[vetran]

I am not sure reducing the benefits of a convicted murder would go very far towards assuaging the grief of the victims' families.

whoa I was talking about locking people up because they haven't paid their TV licence. Forced deduction from benefits / PAYE / Interest or setting the Debt Collectors on them being far cheaper to arrange.

ILife meaning Life and murders being treated humanely but sparsely sounds good to me.

I'm all for clear plexiglass cells that you can just stand up in, porridge / vegetable soup and limited exit from their cell, but starving them & working them to death reeks of "Arbeitslager".

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

I don't really but since you see fit to impose your uninformed ramblings on here I am forced to respond

'Forced'? By whom?

[sasguru]

Do you know, Sasguru, I find it incredibly humbling that someone such as yourself would take even the smallest interest in me

I don't really but since you see fit to impose your uninformed ramblings on here I am forced to respond

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

I don't think anything would.

Possibly but I am damn sure that wouldn't. There you are perhaps that's the answer - let the victim (or their family in the case of murder) decide the sentence/punishment for the perpetrator

[Mich the Tester]

I am not sure reducing the benefits of a convicted murder would go very far towards assuaging the grief of the victims' families.

I don't think anything would.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

yes it seems foolish to spend even more sending them to prison to get them to pay. I would of thought an order to deduct it from their benefits, pensions etc or enforcing bankruptcy would be cheaper?

obviously needs to be carefully managed.

I am not sure reducing the benefits of a convicted murder would go very far towards assuaging the grief of the victims' families.

[vetran]

yes it seems foolish to spend even more sending them to prison to get them to pay. I would of thought an order to deduct it from their benefits, pensions etc or enforcing bankruptcy would be cheaper?

obviously needs to be carefully managed.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

I don't think 'sense' is very common at all though.

In that, you may have a point But, again, what's the alternative? All men have a right to be judged by their peers and Judges are appointed to administer justice - all are human and therefore naturally flawed

[Mich the Tester]

What else would you suggest? A system that allows individuals to assess and judge the actions of other individuals will always be flawed. Personally I think less interference from Government in sentencing would improve matters - freedom to apply common sense would, I'm sure, make many judges lives easier (although it would be likely to result in fewer news stories in the Daily Mail)

I don't think 'sense' is very common at all though.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

But Lisa didn't do much more than primary school.

Do you know, Sasguru, I find it incredibly humbling that someone such as yourself would take even the smallest interest in me

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

So you want to trust the same courts system to send people to break rocks for the rest of their lives?

What else would you suggest? A system that allows individuals to assess and judge the actions of other individuals will always be flawed. Personally I think less interference from Government in sentencing would improve matters - freedom to apply common sense would, I'm sure, make many judges lives easier (although it would be likely to result in fewer news stories in the Daily Mail)

[sasguru]

Have you met anything above primary school here yet?

But Lisa didn't do much more than primary school.