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Originally Posted by MiniMatt
At the risk of coming across as the argumentative angry short bloke, I'm afraid I won't be signing this one. Their crimes were abhorent and barbaric and in no way can I condone what they did. But - relocation and anonymity - of course, the only alternative is mob justice. That may indeed be what they deserve but it is not what civilised society does.
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I'm sure that his parents would vastly prefer them to be away from the rest of society for the rest of their lives.
I don't see why the UK doesn't operate a sort of prison-gang workforce. Yes it'd need more policing, and some inmates aren't good candidates for it, but I know full well that some prisoners work in HMPS warehouses.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that they should be ousted to the public either, they are human afterall, and should be protected as such, but they don't deserve freedom IMO either.
They could make a useful contribution to society by building houses etc whilst under the watchful eye of an armed guard.