Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
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(1 year, 5 months ago)
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Lord Bellamy (Con)
As I think I said earlier, I am sure that a court would always prefer to impose a community sentence if it can.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GP)
I would like to correct the Minister. He said in an earlier answer that part of the problem was the barristers’ strike. That is absolutely not true. Part of the problem is that the Government are not funding them properly; that is why we have such a problem. On a wider issue, the Government have started sending climate change protesters to prison for quite long periods of time. I suggest that it would be more appropriate to send the climate criminals to prison and let the protesters out.
Lord Bellamy (Con)
On a point of detail, the Government do not send anyone to prison. These are court decisions.