On 24-3-2009 22:33, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> So the people not getting to jail are IYO predominantly for more 
>> serious crimes? Like fraud and organized crime in stead of drugs and 
>> shoplifting?
> 
> I haven't any idea what the ration between "serious" and "minor" crime 
> conviction rates are (and how would you be able to give a realistic 
> assessment of that?), but I don't think that's the implication here. We 
> lock up too many people because too many people are guilty, not because 
> there's too many innocent people being locked up.

Chambers claimed that too many guilty people were not convicted *and* 
that most of the convicted people were there for petty offences, hence 
my question.

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