Saturday - November 27, 2010

arrested for burglary.  off to jail? no. off to a sewing machine to sew costumes for carnival. huh?

Now why should any career criminal here worry about the law and punishment with this laughable program. Not so laughable to the law abiding, taxpaying public of course.
Take a look.

Sentenced to make carnival costumes: Criminals get so-called ‘tough’ alternative to jail

By Jack Doyle

Burglars and robbers are learning costume-making and working in charity shops instead of being sent to prison, a damning report reveals today.

The punishments are part of supposedly rigorous community service programmes.

But within a year of completing such schemes, criminals had committed a further 250,000 offences, raising major doubts about their effectiveness.

The report found convicts working with animals on farms or serving lunch at old people’s clubs. Others were found making costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival, filling envelopes or sorting jewellery.

The report, by the centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange, charts a 70 per cent rise in community punishments in the last decade under Labour. Such is the scale of the growth that within four years more serious and violent criminals will be given community terms than will be put behind bars, it predicts.

Just half of all community orders are completed, and one in ten are cut short because of a further conviction. Figures suggest criminals placed on community orders in 2008 committed almost a quarter of a million offences in the following 12 months.

Of these, 1,500 were serious crimes such as murder and rape.

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Posted by peiper     on 11/27/2010 at 09:41 AM   
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