The Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has tried to exonerate himself from comments he made about the different types of rape. Its quite obvious to any body with a modicum of sense what a bumbling buffoon he is. He wants to reduce sentences for people convicted of rape who plead guilty. He's said in the not to distant past that short term prison sentencing doesn't work, and wants to reduce the prison population by letting some criminals out of jail early. Yet on the Jeremy Vine radio programme today people who had been sentences to jail for 7 to 14 days said that that experience had made them more aware by their incarceration for that short period that that had been the persuading factor that had made them think positively that they were not going to turn to crime and possible face longer prison sentences. So short term prison sentences especially for first time offenders does work.
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