Personally, I think that custodial sentences work better for offenders that have not committed such a serious offence, much more cost-efficient, the offender is likely to stick to the community penalty, rather than I can only imagine being stuck in such depressing surroundings, but let us see if I am right and see the effectiveness of community penalties. Crime is ever growing in one part of or another, where an individual offends; the offence must be proportionate to the offence. It is the courts dealings to do justice; by achieving some measure of proportion between one sentence and another can...
take concentrate on how to diminish the numbers going in to custody. On the whole with the high number of non-violent, non-dangerous criminals who are sentences for such petty crimes, which probably could be dealt with more suitably directed whilst on a community sentence. Here it can allow them to make reparation for their crimes and gives confidence them to live a good and in the eyes of the law a crime free life. Prison sentences then instead should be used as a final sentence for those serious violent offenders who carry on creating threat to the social order.