Conservatives Urge Government to Block Plan Weighing Ethnicity or Faith in Sentencing
- The Sentencing Council has issued new guidance requiring pre-sentence reports for offenders from ethnic, cultural, or faith minorities, effective April 2025.
- Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has expressed her intent to reverse the Sentencing Council's changes, stating there will never be a 'two-tier sentencing approach under my watch.'
- The updated guidelines include recommendations for rehabilitation over custodial sentences, particularly for pregnant women and mothers.
- Critics, including Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, argue that the new guidelines create a bias against specific groups and perpetuate 'two-tier justice.
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New Sentencing Rules Could Give White Brits Longer Sentences Than “Minorities” for SAME Crimes
U.K. magistrates were told to consider whether a guilty party is "from an ethnic minority, cultural minority and/or faith minority community." ... The post New Sentencing Rules Could Give White Brits Longer Sentences Than “Minorities” for SAME Crimes appeared first on The New American.
UK judges take identity politics to the extreme and issue sexist and racist sentencing guidelines
The Sentencing Council has published several new definitive guidelines that will come into effect on 1 April 2025. The guidelines include discriminating against white men when considering jail sentences. The Sentencing Council for England and Wales is an advisory non-departmental public body established in April 2010 under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. It was…
Anger At New UK 'Two-tier' Sentencing Rules For Minorities
The UK opposition leader Thursday backed the justice minister over scrapping new guidance for judges requiring them to consider a convict's background, including their ethnicity, when deciding jail terms.
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