Rejected petition Humiliate offenders in public stocks

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Prisons are overcrowded and expensive. Asbos are seen as a status symbol. There is nothing to prevent minor crime. We should lock people up, we should humiliate them by sentencing them to spend time in public stocks. This would almost cost nothing and be a real deterent.

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Date submitted 11 August 2011
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