Shouldn't This Despicable Drug Smuggler Have Been Made To Serve Out The Rest Of Her Sentence Here In Britain?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3655230/Peru-Two-drug-mule-Melissa-Reid-arrives-Britain-spending-three-years-jail-smuggling-1-5million-cocaine.html

Or have the Peruvians got it right, and perhaps we should follow their lead and send the foreign criminals who are in our own crowded jails, back to their countries?

[Orderlimit]

"or is this statistical anomaly due to something else?"

The problem is SP, how can they compare the sentencing of same offences when no two specifics of a crime are that same and many other factors have to be taken into account?.

[sp1814]

Orderlimit

I see your point, but whilst no two crimes are the same, I would expect to see a much smaller variance in sentencing because sentencing guidelines group similar offences together.

[sandyRoe]

This young woman, and her companion from NI, weren't criminal masterminds. They were 'mules' probably inveigled into risking their liberty by a promise of a few thousand pounds. Has nobody any sympathy for them?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Has nobody any sympathy for them? ///

Nobody with any sense.

Consider how many lives would have been further destroyed if they had got their stash of drugs onto the street.

Some Far Eastern countries have a way of treating such drug smugglers.

[Orderlimit]

Very good point bringing up the sentencing guidelines SP, which was designed to ensure the courts are consistent in sentencing and not really about the grouping of similar offences together.

The Sentencing Council obviously recognise that there are different aggravating and mitigating features in every crime even if they are the same type of criminal offences, e.g robberies and therefore a standardised scoring guide has been devised to ensure fairness in sentencing based individual facts of the case.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// What the campaigners have claimed is actually true. ///

/// Black people are more likely to receive jail terms for the same offences that white people commit. ///

/// So the question should be - why? ///

How you can possible know that statement is true only you knows, if it is then that is alarming and perhaps you should consider (on a separate thread) putting the following question to our fellow ABers.

*** Why are Black people are more likely to receive jail terms for the same offences that white people commit. ***

I think it would attract some very interesting answers.

Go on try it.

[Zacs-Master]

Would appear to be the case in the US, AOG:
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/racial-disparity-sentencing

[ummmm]

Sandy - me.

[Zacs-Master]

And a report seemed to conclude it was the same here in 2013:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/courts-are-biased-against-blacks-with-white-offenders-less-likely-to-be-jailed-for-similar-crimes-8959804.html