Alan, I posted a Blog on Blogger.com on 30 May 2011 but no-one has told you about it. I heard within the last few weeks that your Department are now processing 6,000 convicted persons through the prison system in Ireland. The majority of these people are guilty of poverty crimes such as no TV Licence, no car tax, inability to pay fines and other petty crimes. My blog on the 30 May was in response to a crisis. Now the crisis is so serious that your department is allowing sentenced prisoners to spend four and a half hours in prison after sentencing. This make a mockery of the courts, the Judges & magistrates and the sentences proffered. I called for a general Amnesty in May because the Penal System had shown then that it was collapsing. It has now collapsed. You Mr Shatter are in charge of a failed Justice System. Please use the period of Christmas Day to New Years Day to give an Amnesty to All Non Violent Prisoners in Ireland. Cut spending on Prisons by 80% overnight in 2012.
Sunday 18 December 2011
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