A new ‘five strikes and you’re out’ policy with automatic jail terms for repeat offenders has been unveiled by Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick.
According to him, those found guilty of five or more offences will spend at least a year behind bars.
Its goal would be to stop the large number of crimes committed by repeat criminals.
The policy would require tens of thousands of extra prison places, funded partly by selling off inner-city jail sites in London and other cities.
The land would be ‘sold with planning permission for high-rise residential development’, Mr Jenrick said.
Money from the sales would be reinvested in new mega prisons’ located in cheaper areas of the country to hold 1,500 or more inmates.
‘If we have the extra capacity, then we can introduce a ‘five strikes and you’re out’ rule,’ Mr Jenrick said.
‘This will end the farce of career criminals, many with 25 or more prior convictions, committing yet more crimes and not going to jail for it.
‘This will enable us to bring about the much safer society we need. Altogether, this reform would significantly cut crime—by around a third.’
He said selling London’s Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth, Brixton, and Pentonville jails could raise £1.6 billion alone.
However, fourteen years of unrestricted immigration have resulted in overcrowding in our country’s jails, traffic jams on our highways, and sewage systems so overloaded that our once-pure rivers are now being forced to receive raw sewage from the water corporations. Our government needs to issue an apology, particularly to those in charge of the massive rise in boat crossings that is still going on.
And now they’re coming over more than ever, and no one in our government is attempting to stop them!
After releasing hundreds of criminals, our government now wants to imprison even more people. Somewhere here’s an irony! But then we must remember that Labour is in power and Jenrick is a Tory, and he can’t unveil such a plan.
Legal and illegal immigrants should be deported as soon as they are found guilty of any crime.
The issue is that there just isn’t enough prison space, the law hasn’t been adequately implemented for decades, and individuals increasingly consider prison to be a vacation destination.
Even some of our homeless try to get themselves banged up for the winter so that they can be warm and have a meal and a bed. That’s how lenient our prisons are.
I have no confidence in this man when all of our prisons are bursting at the seams. What is this man talking about—not enough room at the inn—where is he going to put all these people?
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