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Originally Posted by Mothman

Wot he said.

Many murderers are ordinary people who have been pushed too far by a lover, spouse, boss etc; I can think of a few of my bosses I'd like to throw off a multi storey car park. It's the thought of doing 14 years sharing a pokey cell with a wanking rapist that puts me off.

Fair enough, but the wanking rapist would be sharing the pokey cell with a wanking murderer. Look at it from his POV.
For all we know you might be a fat pikey too...

Originally Posted by smartascarrots

The problem is that the £8 comes out of multiple different departmental budgets while the £1 only comes out of one.

No Minister will ever oversee an increase in his own department's budget even if it does mean that government expenses as a whole decrease. There simply isn't that degree of selflessness any more, not when favourable headlines are at stake.

In my current job I was asked to set up methadone prescribing in a GP practice. No prescribing was done initially but I assessed what was happening and found that the GP's were diagnosing at least one deep vein thrombosis or suspected pulmonary embolism daily. The practice nurses were tied up dressing leg ulcers from damage due to people injecting. From the GP the patients went to the general hospital either got treated or didn't go at all.
The more methadone we prescribed reduced referrals to hospital and gave GP's and nurses more time to do other things.
A GP practice gets it but you're right multiple budgets don't.

As far as Im aware licence recalls are not reoffences unless the breach was in itself a separate offence. I'll find out tomorrow.

If recalls were handled purely by the courts we could see a good 20% population reduction in a few months. And yes 30% plus of inmates are on either 28 day lydowns or full recall without any further charges. It costs the MoJ millions in compo for unlawful detention and delayed release.

This reminds me of a recent tale concerning a training establishment somewhere in England that shall remain nameless- a female member of the kitchen staff was working there on a day release type set-up from prison having been convicted of attempting to murder her husband. One day she reported for work and at the end of her shift she asked one of the 'normal' members of staff if he wouldn't mind driving her to the airport so that she could 'pick up her friend'. Apparently he obliged. It didn't seem odd to him that she didn't need a lift back, or that she had some bags with her.
Anyhow, she jetted off to Spain or some place but was arrested and returned to the UK. The dim witted bloke from the kitchen confessed to having been poking the convict and ended up loosing his job, strangely enough.