Cressida Dick has called for harsher sentences for young criminals. As an ex-prisoner,I believe jail should be the final resort for the young“Time to lock up teen thugs.” Thats how one newspaper summed up the views of the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, and after she called for “harsher and more effective” prison sentences for young criminals. Too many were “simply not fearful of how the state will respond to their actions”,Dick said in a speech to the Howard League for Penal Reform. One 16-year-old with 42 convictions had not spent a single day behind bars. Related: Don’t lock up young offenders – send them to top boarding schools instead | Afua Hirsch Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk