Reid offer criminals 'Get out of jail free' card

Today’s letter from the Home Secretary, Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor demanding that judges and magistrates go out of their way to keep villains out of prison is another example of how the Government holds the average citizen in contempt.
Gerard Batten MEP, the Justice spokesman of the UK Independence Party said, “What a gift to the criminal classes. It is already hard enough to get sent to jail, and now it becomes almost impossible. They must be laughing at us”.
“The Home office is abandoning the law-abiding to the mercies of petty criminals who now know that they have the freedom to do as they please with little risk of them going to prison. This is a criminal’s charter”
Of course there is a way to deal with prison overcrowding, build more jails. This government has had ten years to get a grip on the situation, yet instead of protecting the public, it has made the situation far, far worse.
“Muggers, burglars, thieves and assorted other criminals now have little fear of being arrested, and in the unlikely event of conviction they have very little prospect of imprisonment. Almost everyone now has personal experience of criminals who, even when convicted have got off near scot free”.
“This government has proved that crime does pay. Perhaps the reason that they are being so soft on crime is that they have their own concerns”.