Petition Stop prisoners only having to serve half of their sentence

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At present, prisoners are automatically released after only serving half of a fixed term prison sentence passed by the courts.The law should be changed so that prisoners have to serve the whole of their sentence passed by the court and given a proper message that society does not accept their behaviour.

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8 signatures

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Date closed 30 March 2015
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