Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
As I said above, we already have by far the largest prison population in Europe. So on what grounds do you say that we are soft on crime?

If anything, it seems to indicate that a country with the harshest punitive record in Europe is failing badly in dealing with crime by using this system, and by extension looking at America, there is some evidence that the more punitive the justice system, the more violent the culture? Dunno.

Well in the news this week were the details of the punishments handed out to the killers of Danny Dix

In my opinion way to low, and that’s assuming they serve full term, which they won’t