Prolific Offenders

Part of Justice – in the House of Commons at on 10 December 2024.

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Photo of Jonathan Brash Jonathan Brash Labour, Hartlepool

Retail workers in my constituency tell me that they can predict, almost to the week, when somebody will arrive at their store to begin shoplifting again after their oftentimes all-too-short sentence. Does my right hon. Friend agree with them that the solution to hyper-prolific offending must be longer sentences in certain cases?