Crime and Punishment

With the tragic murder of two female officers in Manchester, there are some people who are calling for all  police officers to be armed, thankfully the police rank and file have dismissed this with an overwhelming vote of 82% of officers opposed to it. Then there are the people who call for the reintroduction of capital punishment some thing that I would support although I know that this will never happen. The really tragic thing is that if the culprit of this crime is found guilty will he be sent to jail for the rest of his life. The killer Harry Roberts who along with two other accomplices in 1966 murdered  officers David Wombwell, Geoffrey Fox and Christopher Head, received a life sentence today he is rightly so still in jail, yet there are people who have called for him to be released. There are so called experts who say that jail is not a deterrent because eight out of ten prisoners return to jail after committing further crimes. These are the same experts who say that murder has decrease over the past forty years. This I believe is incorrect. Why because over that period of time we have re-assessed or categorised murder with many so called murders being reduced to manslaughter. I now believe that such crimes should be re-categorised as some one who has died a death at the hands of others be it by stabbing, shooting, strangling, suffocating, or being mowed down deliberately by a motor vehicle. But more importantly these so called experts have to be asked why prison fails? Could the truth be that people return to jail because they receive a nice warm bed, three meals a day, televisions in their cells along with access to computers etc. If prison was a dark dank cell without all these amenities then there would not be many criminals wanting to return to prison, possible only the real hard cases These people are sent to prison as a punishment for the crimes they have committed against law abiding citizens. Today we have to many bleeding hearts who say that these people have to be reeducated I fully agree with that but not from a nice warm prison.