Why reduce prison sentences for Good Behaiviour?
A prisoner’s behaviour is bound to be good while he’s in prison, because the opportunity of behaving badly has been taken away from him. If he was locked up for stealing cars, of course his behaviour will be good while he’s inside, because he can’t steal cars any more! I share your point of view on this topic. You and I could form a club! Prisoners should not have their sentence reduced for any reason. If a judge says “Ten years”, then ten years (to the day) should be what the criminal serves. When I was in the Army (1960-1962), if a National Serviceman was put in the glasshouse for being a bad boy, the time that he spent inside was added on to his two years’ National Service. That kind of attitude should apply nowadays to any other person who is sent to jail: no concessions. There was a recent case of a man who was released from (I think Broadmoor, or some similar institution) when the “psychiatrists” there thought that he had been “rehabilitated”. He attacked someone in a brutal mann
