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    How the UK can learn from Texas Criminal Justice System

    Excellent stuff. Well done Texas.

    Saved 1 billion dollars.
    Violent crime at lowest rates for 30 years.

    Not by being tougher on crime, but by "shifting emphasis to treatment, training, early release and community-based punishments".



    Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice | Ian Birrell
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/20/texas-teach-uk-criminal-justice?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT6921
    Ian Birrell: Conservative Texas prides itself on being tough, but it has learned that locking people up is a costly failure
    Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
    Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
    We've got both kinds
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    Texas
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        This article was amended on 21 November 2011. An editing error led to the published version stating that Texas "locks up more miscreants than anywhere else in the world". This was supposed to be a reference to the United States itself and has now been corrected
        does this mean we have to apologize to sloww now?
        I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
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        • #5
          Surely Mike you mean they executed all of their criminals? Or is it 1st April already...I must keep a closer eye on my calendar
          Speaking of Erith:

          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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          • #6
            I take it you've never been to the Texas then?

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              No, they actually looked at some evidence and made some sensible decisions and are reaping the rewards.
              Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
              Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
              We've got both kinds

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              • #8
                Originally posted by MikeH View Post
                No, they actually looked at some evidence and made some sensible decisions and are reaping the rewards.
                it'll never happen in the UK then.
                "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

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                • #9
                  I know.
                  Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                  Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                  We've got both kinds

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by gribbler View Post
                    I take it you've never been to the Texas then?
                    Hell no, why would I want to do that?
                    Speaking of Erith:

                    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                    • #11
                      "shifting emphasis to treatment, training, early release and community-based punishments"

                      Which one of those things does prolific use of the death penalty fit under?

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                      • #12
                        "Early release," I assume.
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                            Originally posted by Elok View Post
                            "Early release,"
                            From a hellish existence in Texas ?


                            Clearly.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by MikeH View Post
                              Excellent stuff. Well done Texas.

                              Saved 1 billion dollars.
                              Violent crime at lowest rates for 30 years.

                              Not by being tougher on crime, but by "shifting emphasis to treatment, training, early release and community-based punishments".



                              http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...=ILCNETTXT6921
                              OMG, really!?

                              Much as it pains me to say this but...

                              Texas

                              Eurgh, it still makes me feel dirty doing that...
                              Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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