Blair's solution to rising crime rates: Release the prisoners

THOUSANDS of prisoners will be released early in an attempt to ease prison overcrowding overcrowding, under plans approved by Charles Clarke.

Criminals sentenced to four years in prison could be freed after just 18 months, The Times has learnt. A two-year sentence would mean spending only six months in jail.

The early release, under a curfew and electronic tag, will be in addition to the automatic release halfway through all sentences of less of than four years.

Half the 70,000 prisoners sentenced each year to less than four years in jail for offences such as burglary, fraud and theft are estimated to be eligible for the scheme. Sex and violent offenders and fine-defaulters are not eligible.

So the government's answer to increased crime is let prisoners go. Oh yeah I am sure those prisoners won't do it again. What kind of incentive is that not to commit crime? Do we really want those 35,000 prisoners released back into the community to do more harm? Afterall they don't have an incentive not to do crime as Blair is soft on crime.

This is yet more evidence that this government has completely lost the plot

What I would do instead is get the death penalty back for murderers, rapists, paedophiles and drug dealers. The sentence given in the courts for all criminals would be a minimum time they get and they would get time added on for bad behaviour. If the prisons were still found to be overpopulated then the worst criminals starting with repeat offenders would be rounded up and deported to the first third world country that would take them. Of course we would pay the country a lot to take them and would even offer their family a one way ticket over there to be with them.
The prisoner would lose citizenship and would not be allowed back.

Once word got around the country that we were doing it I am sure there would be a sharp reduction in crime as who would want to be sent to a crappy country with no belongings except the clothes on their backs and no knowledge of the language at all? It would be hell for them but they deserve it. All criminals do.