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PostPosted: 00:55 - 09 Mar 2009    Post subject: What the hell ! compo paid to prisoners !? Reply with quote
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5864597.ece
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PRISONERS released early under a government scheme to cut jail overcrowding have been paid more than £5m in “compensation” for losing free board and lodging.

The figures — disclosed by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, after Tory pressure – have prompted a political row.

Introduced two days after Gordon Brown became prime minister in June 2007, the so-called “end-of-custody licence” (ECL) has allowed nearly 50,000 criminals to walk out of jail early simply because there are too few cells.


Seriously I thought this was a joke posting on another site, precis is quoted directly from the article, but what the hell how on earth can they justify that?!
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PostPosted: 08:57 - 09 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Like some on here know, Crime pays.
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PostPosted: 10:25 - 09 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
The absolute irony is , if you are convicted of a crime but then acquitted or exhonerated , YOU have to pay the government money back to cover your room and board!, which is even more ridiculous!
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