Suseonline,

<I suspect that with you, the 'line' should be nothing less than death by firing squad for all criminal activities.>
Probably not such a bad idea really.
I bet it would cut the crime rate by a huge percentage.
Who needs criminals anyway? Perhaps you, not me thank you.

Chris, great plan.
Let's teach all our kiddies that if anyone does anything wrong, we will just shoot them dead!
Never mind the 'criminals' that were wrongly convicted, they would just be collateral damage I suppose? No problems really.

Chris, I think you may be more comfortable living in a society run by the Taliban?

Yes, Suse.

Chris appears to be fan of totalitarian society.

As opposed to egalitarian.

Suseonline,
The only crims I ever locked up, and there were hundreds of them, deserved to be locked up, many for ever. Wait till you are raped, or bashed for you purse or just for fun and the see if you really want them smacked and sent home.

Dear Chris,

Aren't we all of "foreign" extract?

The rate of repeated crime by those who have
been convicted before is alarmingly high.
Nearly three-quarters of all offenders released
after serving prison time are re-arrested within four
years - sometime for the same crimes. Since other
releaased prisoners presumably also return to crime
but are not arrested, the actual crime rate among
released convicts is even greater.

Clearly, prisons fail to rehabilitate. One reason,
no doubt, is that relatively few resources are
devoted to rehabilitation in the first place.
A major reason, however lies in the very nature of a
prison, in which the authorities; custodial duties take
priority over other goals. Additionally, the prison
environment guarantees association with other criminals -
so the inmates can scarcely fail to learn new techniques
and possibilities for crime. Imprisonment may therefore
lead to further crime - not rehabilitation.

Lexi
I can't believe that you are that innocent.
Prisons were never designed as rehabilitation centers.
They are there to lock up people who cannot abide by the rules.
Rehabilitation has been a dirty word for years.
You cannot rehabilitate someone who has been brought up in an anti social environment. Look at the Mafia and the IRA and the gutters of Redfern and the housing estates of London.
Build bigger prisons and many more of them. Make them self supporting and lock these parasite up for ever if necessary.