"Community Punishments" in the UK

[Bleipriester]

You must be creative when your prisons are full.

"Criminals will be barred from pubs, concerts and sports matches under new sentencing powers unveiled by the Government today (Sunday 24 August) as part of its Plan for Change.

Judges will be able to curtail offenders’ freedoms with driving limits, travel bans and restriction zones confining them into specific areas.

The changes will toughen up community punishments to deter reoffending and force offenders back onto the straight-and-narrow.

As part of the Government’s work to do everything in its power to keep Britain safe, offenders coming out of prison and supervised by the Probation Service will also face similar restrictions and an expanded mandatory drug testing regime.

In future, criminals without known drug habits will face this scrutiny, not just those with a history of substance misuse.

Offenders who break the rules face being brought back to court or hauled back to prison as punishment depending on the sentence they are serving.

Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said:

Widening the range of punishments available to judges is part of our Plan for Change to cut crime and make streets safer.

When criminals break society’s rules, they must be punished. Those serving their sentences in the community must have their freedom restricted there too.

These new punishments should remind all offenders that, under this Government, crime does not pay.

Rightly, the public expect the government to do everything in its power to keep Britain safe, and that’s what we’re doing.

Currently, judges are able to give out limited bans for specific crimes, for example football bans for crimes committed inside a stadium on match day, to prevent further antisocial behaviour.

The Government will change the law shortly so such bans can be handed down as a form of punishment for any offence in any circumstance."

Criminals to face football, travel, club and pub bans

Criminals will be barred from pubs, concerts and sports matches under new sentencing powers.

www.gov.uk

NEW: "Offenders who break the rules face being brought back to court"

Will Islamists also be banned from Mosques?

 

[1srelluc]

That's what you get when you are a mere Subject.

 

[Darkwind]

It's beginning to crumble.

 

[JWBooth]

Making the Stasi, KGB, NKVD, Gestapo, all pikers compared to this new Orwellian England.

 

[Woodznutz]

God will allow the Muslims to destroy England. Then he will destroy the Muslims.

Note to Muslims. Behave or leave while you can.