Minister promises that Part III is coming

[Ian G Batten]

On 12 May 2006, at 23:04, Ian Johnson wrote:
>
> Once upon a time :) we were more interested in the rehabilitation
> of offenders, rather than their persecution to the grave.


I think that was about the 7th of October, 1981 (yes, that's a random  
date).

It certainly wasn't true up until the abolition of hard labour,  
transportation, treadmills, oakum picking, flogging and (arguably)  
the death penalty, so that takes us up to the mid-sixties.  And it  
certainly hasn't been true since the Tory backlash against the  
Guardian Society Section started, so that's the mid-eighties  
onwards.  So I'd say the idea that the criminal justice system is  
mostly interested in rehabilitation is a contemporary of The Clash  
releasing Sandinista!  And, probably, about as popular.

ian