Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called for an examination of sentencing after a solider received a suspended sentence for assaulting a woman yesterday.
The judges obviously know (correctly) that prison does more harm than good.
But the victim doesn’t feel they got justice.
I don’t see why we can’t just bring back compensation like we had before colonisation. Maybe she’d be more satisfied if he had to pay her [soldier’s yearly salary × 20% × ten years]. And he doesn’t get the ruination of prison and a criminal record.
The judges obviously know (correctly) that prison does more harm than good.
But the victim doesn’t feel they got justice.
I don’t see why we can’t just bring back compensation like we had before colonisation. Maybe she’d be more satisfied if he had to pay her [soldier’s yearly salary × 20% × ten years]. And he doesn’t get the ruination of prison and a criminal record.