Thieves ‘Should Be Spared Jail’

Monday, 27th September 2021 at 5:56pm

According to the Unilad website, a leading Police & Crime Commissioner has stated that short sentences do not work for a low-level crime like shoplifting.

Donna Jones believes that jail sentences should be reserved for violent crimes and sex offences, and that retailers should help fund thieves’ rehabilitation.

An angry backlash has followed from industry, with the British Retail Consortium saying that Jones’s plan was, ‘little different to suggesting that households who are burgled should pay for the rehabilitation of the burglars’.

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