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By Cutehs2 - 17 Apr 19 11:55 AM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6930141/Criminals-convicted-minor-offences-given-clean-slate-new-proposals.html#comments

Thoughts?
By CC - 19 Apr 19 10:52 PM

Outsourced - 18 Apr 19 9:35 PM
Don't get excited. Government policy will follow the pounds. 

Smoking was all well and good until the cost of NHS treatment tipped the tax scale. Now smoking is bad. 

When the long term unemployed and social welfare costs are bloated with the criminal untouchables, the slate will clear. 

If there is a hard brexit and severe shortage of workers, I guarantee a rehabilitation revolution to create the required taxpaying slaves. 


Todays news of 420 climate protesters arrested might find the above a sharp reality check. 

Hi Outsourced I would like to think that policy would be dictated by common sense but in my experience it doesn't. My case in point. When I applied for my parole it was initially turned down because" I hadn't done my course and hadn't submitted all paperwork"  My solicitors reply was "yes he has" p/b "well we dont have it" my solicitor "well yes you do, I sent it recorded and you signed for it!" .. It took the P/B 6 months to find it keeping yours truly hanging around inside for that time.. P/B eventually, " Oh yes you did and you have,, OK parole granted" 6 months at I believe to be the  going rate to keep me there 20k wasted because they couldn't do it sooner? My experience of the whole system is everyone pulling in their own direction so never getting anywhere. A total waste of time and effort. There was a guy in there who had been recalled for breach of licence, it took his legal team 12 months to get to the point where they proved he had not breached and it was incompetence by the parole service who had miss typed the licence. He was awarded 12 months false imprisonment plus legal costs. Another guy at hostel kept trying to find suitable accom, Police kept declining on grounds of unsuitability, he had been there for a long time, suspect the Police didn't want him to be their problem so kept him at hostel which was costing way more.
Nothing I experienced in my journey through the system made me think otherwise. If this was a private business it would have gone bust a long time ago being so disjointed.
I dont believe in the rehabilitation fairy