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RAEL'S COMMENT: As the Messages say, criminality is a sickness, and no prison can cure a sickness. In fact, prison will only make it worse. If a new system is created that can fix problems in the brains of criminals, then criminal behavior will cease. Even better, such a system can be used as a preventive measure BEFORE any crime

is committed, as is the case on Elohim planet.

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Source: Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326563/Revolving-door-justice-3-4-offenders-return-life-crime-punishment.html

Revolving door justice: 3 in 4 offenders return to life of crime after punishment

By Jack Doyle

Three out of four criminals offend again within nine years, official figures show.

The sheer scale of the 'revolving door' justice system is a major blow to the Government's plans for a 'rehabilitation revolution'.

That is because whether criminals were jailed or given community punishments made little difference to reoffending rates.

Critics said the figures showed there was no 'magic bullet' to get criminals back on the straight and narrow.

Blair Gibbs of the Policy Exchange think-tank said: 'These statistics show that reoffending rates are stubbornly high and a lot of interventions – both in prison and in the community – simply don't work anywhere near well enough.

'The justice system is failing to deter criminals who remain active for many years and sentences are clearly not working to rehabilitate when most offenders go back to crime regardless of how many prior sentences they have served.

The Government's ambition for a rehabilitation revolution is welcome, but the hard truth is that cutting reoffending is really difficult and there is no magic bullet.'

Yesterday's figures showed how many convicts who committed crimes in the first three months of 2000 were convicted of a further offence within nine years.

Within 12 months, an astonishing 40 per cent had another mark on their record.

By the two-year point the figure reached 55 per cent and, after six years, 70 per cent had come back into contact with the justice system.

By last year the figure was 74 per cent. Over the entire period the group of more than 42,000 convicts had committed 452,000 offences.

Separately, statisticians examined whether criminals sentenced to community punishments were less likely to return to crime than those given jail terms of under 12 months.

They found the difference in the reoffending rates was as little as 4 per cent. According to Kenneth Clarke, jail terms of six months or less are absurd.

His Justice Ministry plans to introduce tough community terms involving long hours of work and strict curfews enforced by electronic tags.

Although short sentences will not be abolished, officials expect many of the 50,000 convicts who currently receive them every year will be diverted away from prison.

The plans, which are due to be revealed in full before Christmas as part of a major sentencing review, have already faced criticism.

Tory backbenchers and grassroots activists have questioned the shift away from Michael Howard's 'prison works' policy.

By 2014, the prison population will be cut by some 3,000 – meaning tens of thousands who would have been behind bars will escape imprisonment.

Dr David Green of the Civitas think-tank said: 'This difference is too small to be the basis of a major shift in policy.

'Prison sentences give a respite to potential victims of crime whereas community orders do not to the same extent.'

In a further blow the figures showed nearly 600 serious offences – such as murder, rape and serious assault – were committed last year by offenders being monitored by probation service.

Prisons minister Crispin Blunt said: 'Reoffending rates among short sentence prisoners remain unacceptably high.

'We will address this failure in the system by making prisons places of hard work which prepare offenders more effectively for the outside world.'

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WARNING FROM RAEL: For those who don't use their intelligence at its full capacity, the label "selected by RAEL" on some articles does not mean that I agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL" means that I believe it is important for the people of this planet to know about what people think or do, even when what they think or do is completely stupid and against our philosophy. When I selected articles in the past about stupid Christian fundamentalists in America praying for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader was stupid enough to believe that I was supporting praying to change the weather. So, when I select articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-semitic, anti-Jewish, racist, revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or religion, or any other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It just means that it is important for all human beings to know about them. Common sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good enough to understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug decriminalization, it is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment, which in this case was very clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs, as it is stupid to throw depressed and sad people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is any change to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any drug except for medical purposes. The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be absolute. That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews, antisemites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your enemies or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight them. With love and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence of the French philosopher Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.

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