Just to show that we *do* have a functioning justice system...

If life means life what is the motivation to act good in prison? If they know there is no serious consequence to their actions what is to stop them from starting mass riots within prison, spend their time smuggling drugs, attacking other prisoners and guards etc. Without a mass rebuild of the prisons in the country solitary confinement would not be possible for all lifers due to the lack of space

Why you may not like the attitude of "letting people off for good behaviour" it is for the benefit of maintaining the prison system. Also would there end up being any space in the prisons for other offenders?
 
I guess that makes it ok then ?
Why are you twisting what I am saying? Do you have a complete inability to think straight?

In no way did I say that murdering someone was OK.


You said:
I don't believe someone who is capable of murder is ever fully able to rehabilitate.
I said:
Given that the majority of murders in this country are emotionally driven, you're wrong.
 
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Isn't that true of any custodial sentence?


Not a short one as what if they don't rehabilitate before the release date comes up?


life + a minimum means that if she rehabilitates and is safe for release in 15 years she can be, if she never does she can be kept till she is no longer a threat.
 
14 years.

Hope that this young woman realises what she's done wrong, and in time learns to become a better person for it, maybe even being allowed back in to society in a postitve role.
 
Maybe we should give people their sentence and it only starts once they are considered rehabilitated.

I will never understand the guilty plea though. It was definately her that knocked the lady to the ground and then decided that she needed a good stomping. If she had died from the fall then I can understand a reduced sentence as that was not the intention. Stamping on an old ladies head will pretty much always result in unfortunate results.

What other plea can there be?

Did you push this lady over and stamp on her head?
'Well, yes I did but I am not guilty of it'
Silly us, how could we think that you were guilty just because you committed the crime.
 
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