tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post1503699840212651848..comments2024-03-28T07:32:23.397+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Long Shadow of 2011 RiotsJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-12937734281469043282016-12-21T17:32:37.944+00:002016-12-21T17:32:37.944+00:00How perverse is it that fringe rightists use the w...How perverse is it that fringe rightists use the word "progressive" as a term of abuse?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-57709956480883166572016-12-21T15:57:47.847+00:002016-12-21T15:57:47.847+00:00Leftists can be Stalinist and regressive - just lo...Leftists can be Stalinist and regressive - just look at what's happening around free speech at UK universities. So, no surprise really about the rise in prison numbers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-53162715598697043562016-12-21T14:34:51.517+00:002016-12-21T14:34:51.517+00:00How perverse for the progressives that the explosi...How perverse for the progressives that the explosion in prison numbers was orchestrated by a Labour government, just as the same happened under Clinton's democrats. You were less likely to go to prison under Thatcher than Blair. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-29107823462870921122016-12-21T08:54:45.728+00:002016-12-21T08:54:45.728+00:00Couldn't agree more 7.37 and this is the right...Couldn't agree more 7.37 and this is the right thing to do for society but who would feed the greedy fat cat privateers then. The Government is corrupt and has paid its financial backers with public service revenues. There isn't one utility, rail service, prison or CRC that is a success. The evidence of privatisation of public services speaks for itself Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-15187251645821616612016-12-21T08:20:24.823+00:002016-12-21T08:20:24.823+00:00The police fired the shots that started the riots ...The police fired the shots that started the riots when they killed an unarmed Mark Duggan. Presumably when African Americans riot it's because they, too, come from the criminal class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-79119124279153530272016-12-21T07:37:17.054+00:002016-12-21T07:37:17.054+00:00The alternative is Probation Orders managed by a w...The alternative is Probation Orders managed by a well resourced Probation Service. Kick out the private probation companies, stop giving probation authority to the polices, stop offloading probation work to charities, end the central government control of probation and separate probation from the prison service. All the articles above need to go the further mile and state this clearly. Probation Officernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-3059723918954637642016-12-21T07:10:37.707+00:002016-12-21T07:10:37.707+00:00Both the Howard League and FT say: send fewer peop...Both the Howard League and FT say: send fewer people to prison. But neither suggest what we do with law breakers instead of sending them to prison. There is no adequate analysis in either article. No one concerned about law and order is going to be persuaded by the "send fewer people to prison" unless an alternate is spelled out. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com