6. Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Criminal Justice

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:40 pm on 7 March 2018.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 4:40, 7 March 2018

I thank the Member for taking an intervention, and I bow to his experience as a magistrate. But the question is the sentencing guidelines and the alternative mechanisms that we could be looking at, in which we can work with individuals who are found guilty of an offence. Do you agree, therefore, that we need to refresh those sentencing guidelines, because there are people who are being incarcerated who should be incarcerated? There are different ways in which we can still punish a person but not put them in jail.