A Yolo County judge on Monday sentenced a man who walked out of a store with a package of cheese in his trousers to seven years and eight months in prison.
Prosecutors had originally sought a life sentence for Robert Ferguson under the state’s “three strikes” law. They dropped that bid last month, saying a psychological report had convinced them that a life sentence wasn’t warranted.
At Monday’s hearing, Deputy District Attorney Clinton Parish urged Judge Thomas Warriner to consider at least one of Ferguson’s prior strikes – one for burglary and another for assault with a deadly weapon – and to sentence him to a lengthy term.'
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Showing posts with label Prison Service. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Martin Narey: The Barnardos Chief Who Wants To Take Your Children Into Care
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Martin Narey said that social workers should remove more, not fewer, children from their natural parents.
He admitted many professionals would regard his views as "heresy", and criticised the prevailing philosophy of social services departments which, he claimed, sought to keep families together wherever possible.
Mr Narey also said that once the decision had been made to take a child away from their family, there should be greater use of residential care – formerly known as children's homes – as an alternative to placing challenging children with a succession of foster families.
He said: "The emphasis is – too much in my view – on fixing families."
Martin Narey is ex head of our illustrious prison service and also pimps himself out on the After dinner speaking circuit.
This man should not be let near any childrens organisation let alone the chief of Barnardos. and when he states that more kids should be put in childrens homes - Barnardos Childrens homes presumably!
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