Tony Blair’s Wife for ‘Face-to-Face Justice’
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Ms Cherie Booth, the British Prime Minister’s wife, has called for a huge expansion of face-to-face justice, in which offenders meet their victims and apologise for their crimes. She warns that sending people to jail does not alter their long-term attitudes and behaviour.
Says The Times: “The jail system is facing an overcrowding crisis and courts in England and Wales are being put on standby to hold prisoners in cells overnight.
“A set of emergency measures has been drawn up by the Home Office as the number of prisoners being sent to jail continues to rise. On Monday night 270 prisoners were held in police cells because there were not spaces in jails in those parts of the country.
“The intervention of Ms Booth in the law-and-order debate is based on the ten years that she has spent sitting in courts as a recorder when she has had to sentence offenders.
“She will say in the Radio 4 programme Lent Talk tonight that ‘restorative justice’, in which offenders meet their victims, should be used routinely for assault, robbery and stealing and where appropriate for domestic violence and sexual assault.”
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Says The Times: “The jail system is facing an overcrowding crisis and courts in England and Wales are being put on standby to hold prisoners in cells overnight.
This pretty much says it all. In a recent extensive poll conducted in Western Europe and England the results were startling and yet predictable. Only 20 percent of Western Europeans went to church on a regular basis, compared to 49 percent in the United States.
This article only proves that there is NO paradise without god, yet we as nations and even political movements continue to work feverishly at banning God from our existence.
“A set of emergency measures has been drawn up by the Home Office as the number of prisoners being sent to jail continues to rise. On Monday night 270 prisoners were held in police cells because there were not spaces in jails in those parts of the country.
I can read the handwriting on the wall. Too bad the rest of the West cant. This has nothing to do with antiwar, Islam, or GAY people. This has to do with core values that are being eroded in an attempt to force one set of views on the other. IE….Godlessness vs. Godlikeness.
Those are the battle lines. It appears to me who is winning the battle.