A grotesque spectacle played out on the radio today with the unctuous Alan Johnston rambling on in his third form best about crime and it's causes. Hilarious if it wasn't so disgusting. He would be better off using his time  attending to the increasing numbers of serious criminals who are let out of prison early and then offend before their original release date.


An idea to bring some semblance of sanity to these early releases and parole in general  occurs.


1.The prisoner, guilty of a serious crime, appears before the  parole board.
2.The board assesses the prisoner, and makes a judgement on him being granted parole.
3.The prisoner, having been granted parole, commits a further serious crime in the time before his original sentence would have been completed.
4.The prisoner, charged and found guilty of this further offence, is sentenced.


  Here is the new bit.


5. Members of the parole board are required to serve a sentence themselves as a result of their over eager granting of parole.( There  are almost ALWAYS  unheard or ignored voices counselling against the granting of  parole in these cases).


I wonder if this might temper the seemingly endless urges of parole boards in trying to out do each other in granting ever more contentious parole? I look forward to an idea such as this being taken up shortly, after which I will shoot the pig flying around the roof of our house.


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