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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2024, 06:44:32 PM

Title: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2024, 06:44:32 PM
No fan of JSO but this seems idiotic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el32g75p8o
Title: Re: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 21, 2024, 06:48:08 PM
Idiotic is being kind. It's just unfathomable.
Title: Re: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: Roses on December 21, 2024, 06:53:28 PM
No fan of JSO but this seems idiotic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el32g75p8o

I agree.
Title: Re: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: jeremyp on December 21, 2024, 07:11:40 PM
She's serving a prison sentence. This would be a privilege idk it had been allowed, but, well, tough. Don't do the crime.
Title: Re: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2024, 08:15:27 PM
She's serving a prison sentence. This would be a privilege idk it had been allowed, but, well, tough. Don't do the crime.
So you have a rule where people can be allowed out if on a tag but because someone is too small because she's a 78 year old women for the tag, and is therefore much less likely to be a danger, you send them to jail and waste money. Idi-fecking-otic
Title: Re: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: Gordon on December 21, 2024, 08:22:52 PM
Seems to me that to return her to prison simply because she is too frail/thin to be fitted with a tag, and given her age and that she has been at home without incident, is both disproportionate and costly (and maybe a wee bit cruel given the specific circumstances).

Hard to see how society benefits by her return to prison simply because there is no suitable 'kit' for her.
Title: Re: Just Stop Oil activist jailed over ankle tag issue
Post by: jeremyp on December 22, 2024, 10:43:52 AM
So you have a rule where people can be allowed out if on a tag but because someone is too small because she's a 78 year old women for the tag, and is therefore much less likely to be a danger, you send them to jail and waste money. Idi-fecking-otic
No, I don't have that rule. The government does.

She broke the law. Why do I need to have sympathy for a convicted criminal?