Boris To Get Tough On Crime.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7345377/Boris-Johnson-stop-prisoners-automatically-released-half-sentence.html

/// Left wingers will howl. But its time to make criminals afraid - not the public. ///

[Spicerack]

Sounds like a threat to me, ken. You think it's clever, do you?

[pixie374]

Nobody can "incite" violence. If it occurs, it is due to criminals and no-one else.

[Cloverjo]

Where’s all this money coming from? He’s planned about £7 billion of spending so far. He’ll need to get his rich pals to pay a bit more tax at this rate.

[naomi24]

Cloverjo, as far as I’m aware, unlike Labour, he’s not planning to nationalise everything so considerable savings will be made there at least. ;o)

[Ken4155]

Spicerack; "Sounds like a threat to me Ken. You think it's clever do you?"
What goes on in that empty head of yours? Where do i say i think it's clever? My interpretation of what she said is that she is merely pointing out this has been rolled out before and didn't work then. All that happened was that police stopped and searched a certain faction of the community in inordinate numbers leading to 'unrest'. If you think people are overplaying the racist card now, just wait until this SAS is in place.

[Cloverjo]

How do Tories manage to find a magic money tree whenever they need one?

[vetuste_ennemi]

With any luck we won't be parting with £38 billion in Danegeld.

[douglas9401]

It's like buses. You wait ages then three turn up with various fictional amounts of money to keep the voter bamboozled then before you know it the driver/snake oil salesman has disappeared with a healthy pension leaving YOU to pay for it.

[New Judge]

//When a judge hands down a sentence for, say, 12 months, he/she knows full well that only half of it will be served.//

Actually, ken (and everybody else who probably doesn't realise) he/she knows full well that in a large number of cases only one quarter of it will be served. Those sentenced to at least twelve weeks but under four years can be released, under a tagged curfew, having served one quarter of their sentence (subject to having served a minimum of 28 days). The maximum remission under this scheme is 135 days. This means anybody sentenced to 540 days (roughly 18 months) or less will serve a quarter of their sentence in prison, a quarter of it on HDC and the remaining half "on licence" (during which time they are supposedly supervised by the probation service, but otherwise free of restrictions). Those sentenced to more than 540 days but less than four years will be released on HDC 135 days before their half way point.

There are some exceptions to the right to HDC but the vast majority of those sentenced will be eligible for it. The government's waffle paper about it is here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/790670/home-detention-curfew-pf.pdf

A slightly easier to read version is here:

http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/ForPrisonersFamilies/PrisonerInformationPages/HomeDetentionCurfewHDC

As an aside, when it was first introduced, HDC was only available to those sentenced to four months or more. In true civil service style, the designers of the scheme did not do a few simple sums. Thus someone sentenced to twelve weeks would only be released after serving six (the half way stage). Whereas someone sentenced to sixteen weeks would be released after four weeks (half off automatically and another quarter off under HDC). There followed the ridiculous farce of advocates pleading for their clients to be subject to a longer prison sentence as they would actually be released earlier!