Securing the Future

Aside from sacking people and war on wogs, there are few values more British than putting children in prison. The new Police, Crime, Sentencing, Courts and Throw Away the Key Rah Rah Bill does not neglect to make due provision for Serco and all those other jolly chaps in the human warehousing industry, with a provision to increase the minimum term of incarceration that can be imposed on juveniles. Presumably Her Majesty's Government is reserving the return of the birch and the rope for the general election manifesto; but until then, the chief executive of the Youth Justice Board has been good enough to point out that longer sentences tend to result in more re-offending, thereby enhancing due provision for Serco and all those other jolly chaps in the human warehousing industry.