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December 30th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda -
18,000 convicts reoffend within 12 months after avoiding a jail sentence
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Offenders set to be handed 28 hour community service punishment instead of being put behind bars
By
James Slack
Last updated at 11:19 PM on 29th December 2011
Fifty people a day suffer a violent or sexual attack by a convict spared jail in the ‘soft’ justice system.
Victims include young children assaulted by paedophiles, figures released by the Government show.
They reveal that every year more than 18,000 convicts given a community punishment commit a sexual or violent crime within 12 months of being sentenced.
Had they been sent to jail, the offences – which could range from rape to common assault – need never have taken place.
Locked up: More criminals are avoiding jail sentences and subsequently committing more felonies
The revelation, in response to a Parliamentary question by Tory MP Priti Patel, will cast further doubt on the effectiveness of community sentences, which Justice Secretary Ken Clarke wants the courts to use more.
It came as separate figures showed that more than 43,000 criminals given community sentences broke them in the year to July 2011. A total of 43,521 had to be tracked down and sentenced again.
Miss Patel said: ‘This will do nothing to reassure the public, and in particular the victims of criminals who have been spared jail. The Government can’t stand by and watch.’
Conflict: Justice minister Ken Clarke needs to reduce the prison population but faces increasing the crime rate in doing so
A scathing report by the Policy Exchange think-tank found that instead of being supervised while they do hard work on their community sentences, burglars and robbers were working in charity shops or making costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival.
Some convicts were working with animals on farms or serving lunch at old people’s clubs. Others were found filling envelopes or sorting jewellery.
Within a year of completing such schemes, criminals had committed a further 250,000 offences in total.
Mr
Clarke, who needs to reduce the record prison population, wants the
courts to use community sentences in greater numbers. To persuade
magistrates to opt for the punishment rather than jail, he is promising
that convicts given a community sentence will be made to work for a
minimum 28 hours, including ‘hard manual labour’.
The figures supplied to Miss Patel on
sex attacks and violence show that in 2009, the latest period for which
statistics are available, there were 18,133 attacks, including 172 sex
attacks on children, by convicts who had been given community sentences
in the previous 12 months.
They are the latest evidence of ‘soft justice’ to emerge in recent weeks.
Figures
from the Ministry of Justice show that tens of thousands of habitual
criminals escaped jail last year despite having more than 15 previous
convictions.
Overall, serial offenders accounted
for more than a third of the 294,000 cases ending in convictions in the
adult courts last year.
Yet
barely a third of those with more than 15 previous convictions were
jailed. Of the 103,175 cases involving serial offenders, just over
36,000 resulted in immediate custody.
Danger: Amongst the common crimes occurring include violent assault with
a 43,000 convicts given community sentences instead of being sent to
prison
In 4,579 cases, offenders were released with a police caution despite their lengthy records. Almost 11,000 cases that reached court ended in a conditional discharge, with another 16,000 offenders being let off with a fine.
Just over 20,000 cases ended in community sentences, while another 8,000 resulted in suspended jail sentences.
The figures also reveal that the police issued more than 100,000 cautions to adult offenders last year, more than half of them to individuals who already had a police record.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: ‘Reoffending is falling and the overwhelming majority of people sentenced to community orders, or handed out-of-court disposals, do not commit further offences. If they do they face a potential prison sentence.
‘Despite this, we believe that levels of reoffending in this country are too high, which is why we’re determined to break the cycle and address the root causes of this behaviour.’
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