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There are other ways of going about it too...
the reason being ...a man who is in jail that has not yet been found guilty of any crime gets certain benefits a convicted man doesn't.
like visits every day instead of half an hour a month.
outside food and money coming in ...wear your own clothes and much more.
plus ...this much better prison lifestyle comes off your sentence.
you can be remanded for maybe twelve months so ...twelve months of your sentence has been much more comfortable.
meaning ...offering you time off your sentence for a straight guilty plea ...does stop people using the system for their own ends at your expense.
if ten years meant ten years ...not one prisoner would have any incentive to behave himself ...the officers would be working in a very very dangerous place ...recruitment would be almost impossible,
if your doing three years but only have to serve two ...that gives the officers a whole year they can chip away at as punishment.
get caught fighting ...you will be thrown in solitary confinement for a while ...and have a month of that spare twelve months to do.
get in more trouble ...you loose some more of that twelve months.
there are many complete twats in there who actualy take pride in doing the whole sentence ...'i'm 'ard i am ...fuck your rules and your parole' ...you'd be surprised how many people there are like this in our jails.
the system cannot work if ten years means ten years.
They misbehaved that's why they're in prison in the first place - we need to emphaise that a lot more. You're in prison because you can't abide by the laws outside.
This would be a better way of dealing with the good behaved and the bad behaved and will store crediability in the justice system.
If one person gets 10 years in prison and only does 5... often the setence of 10 years doesn't fit the crime never mind 5 years.
Give them 10 years in prison... if they are well behaved then rthey only do the ten years, if they cause trouble, fight, drugs etc... keep adding on months or even years to their sentence.
Get it firmly drawn up that being well behaved brings benefits.... out of jail... and not early either as you've broken the law.
Carry on braking the law and you won't get out.
There has to be a carrot as well as a stick, if you purely use punishment (adding to their sentance) there comes a point where it doesnt work.
Unless of course you want to start using real sticks.
Sadly that's not the case. And we have to behave realistically.
If you don't offer incentives for good behaviour then jails would be an infinitely worse place to be, and one from whom nobody would ever get out.
You cannot just 'behave' in a completely lawless place or resign yourself to daily beatings and rapes so you don't add extra time to your sentence, you know...
Sorry but if you can't do the time don't do the crime.
What ever the courts give the criminal... the punishment should fit the crime, the crimianl should serve the full sentence. Justice served.
Do you think judges dont know the sentance at the moment, do you think they dont know that they can get parole at half time?
If you force all prisoners to do full time then they'd just get half what they do now.
So you want every prisoner across the board to serve double time to now?
No.
It's as simple as this...
if one is sentenced to 10 years, they do 10 years. I've said this a few times now. It's very easy to understand.
The entire justice system is structured around the principle of rehabilitation and reduced sentences for good behaviour. And it works just fine as it is.
We do, as far as I know, but its under funded and not as extensive as it should be.
And the fact that a practicing laywer, people who work with prisoners and people who've been inside disagree with you means nothing?
To run a prison on purely punishment terms can be done, but it costs a lot more, you need much higher levels of staff and much tighter control on the movement of prisoners.