I WROTE a letter previously, saying that anyone caught with a knife should get an automatic six-month sentence.
Now we have Ken Clarke saying that thugs as young as 15 should get an automatic six months’ jail term.
But it’s all hot air with him. Three prisons have been closed and yet our prison population is very near to maximum capacity. So thanks for nothing, Ken.
And, by the way, you can’t send 15-year-olds to prison, but you can send them to a young offenders’ institution.
P HOWARD Brome Place Barton
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