Serco Wouldn't Like It

Few things are more galling to the faith-based than mere expert opinion; and the Ministry for Profitable Incarceration is duly incensed by a law professor's proposal that crimes against property should not result in prison sentences. "People who commit these crimes devastate lives and cause untold misery in our communities," foamed Damian Green, a member of the government which, from social cleansing to shale fracking, has done so much in the way of community happification. The Government, of course, already believes that some thieves and fraudsters do not deserve jail; but the idea of extending City privileges to the proles goes against everything the Conservative Party stands for, while the practice of making thieves and fraudsters work to compensate their victims would exhaust the likes of Twizzler Lansley into a moderately early grave.