One year-old with 42 convictions had not spent a single day behind bars. As its chief executive, Frances Crook, pointed out, the chief inspector of prisons himself had recently declared there was not a single institution in England or Wales in which it was safe to hold children and young people. As an ex-prisoner myself, I believe that where children and young adults are concerned, jail should be the very last resort. In the local prison where I spent several months of my life as an adult, we mixed with young offenders aged between 18 and What most struck me was their immaturity — and their vulnerability.
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Please refresh the page and retry. T he worst teenage criminals should face tougher prison sentences to deter other youngsters from turning to crime in the first place, Britain's top police officer has suggested. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told prison reform campaigners to consider "harsher and more effective" jail terms for teenage thugs when other approaches do not work. The head of the UK's largest police force warned that trying to avoid sending young people to prison had left "an increasing number" of teenagers "simply not fearful of how the state will respond to their actions". In a speech to the Howard League for Penal Reform, she is reported to have said: "They don't see imprisonment as particularly likely or a serious threat and it does not in any sense deter them from criminal activity. M s Dick cited the case of a year-old in London who had 42 offences to his name, but had not served a single day in jail. She called for "more imaginative" resolutions, but added in comments reported in the Daily Mail : "Should we couple that with harsher, more effective sentencing
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She revealed one year-old in south London had not served a single day in jail despite being responsible for 42 offences, involving violence, weapons and drugs, in less than three years. The number of unders in young offender institutions has fallen from 3, in to around today. Sentencing guidelines say judges must focus on the welfare and training needs of young criminals, and use jail as an absolute last resort. She pointed out that young people are jailed for an average of 16 months, and highlighted figures which show two in three commit another crime within a year of being released. Is it absolutely the right thing that we have sought to avoid putting young people in prison for all lower level offences? How is he offending so much and how is he able to? He is by no means alone. Last year 26, criminals under 18 were sentenced by courts, with just 1, — around one in 16 — locked up.
A teenage thug you can't tell them shit A teenage thug nigga just chasin his dick A teenage thug he want the world to recognize A teenage thug he's a man now, fuck his size A teenage thug can't stop him, they on the rise A teenage thug the court of law despise A teenage thug Wanna fuck and puff lie A teenage thug. Dreams of bein a doctor will deteriorate Takin over the underworld was a clearer fate Luxury cars, a hundred girls at my face Laced the name brand, had my game plan mapped out Lost respect for those cracked out Most of my elders were failures to the poison that killed Len Bias from bein Celtic The later I would hang, the greater my slang It took my english, replaced it with game Only cared about, sneakers and two-two bullets Influenced by the hood, wasn't scared to pull it Dared to do what I would First blunt they passed me tasted nasty Then overwhelmed in the spell the blunt had me Eyes red, pants saggin My first dime cut me off for braggin that we was home alone tappin Experimentin liquors, doin mixes, feelin sicker Finish the Henn, throw the bottle, hope it hit ya. Blacked out, I can't see shit sober, not the least bit Hold your head little man, y'all can't tell me shit Try to knock the pants off shorty, my hair just cut My Timbs just bought, the chain I sport I floss Thugs walkin through the block party, hands on my drawers Poppin cham' corks, posin like the man of New York Talk to this hottie with my niggaz who quick to blast you if you old cats, to these niggaz, they harass you. Hey yo cuz, growin up, I almost shattered my plans Some might say, I'm young at heart, but I'm a grown-ass man Givin food to my fam, damn, remember the first time a street thug showed me how to pitch dimes Only twelve in this hell where kids die I want bricks off the scale and just slide, and let my shit fly My Range shift by, I peel the road up with my shirt up, sweatin, with the ice restin on my chest Wild as a teenage thug. Livin and lovin this life, cap peel pump niggaz And since these thugs is trife, give 'em dap for that Yo where your mack at? I got mine Twist weed pop wine shift finds, at the end of the night, it's all fine Livin and lovin, cash stack cousin Yo' own fam blitz so quick, put clips through whips Six type shit let you hold it, ice roll with twenty below with gat golden, my hand look swollen Under my glove shit rocky Unless somebody in my life try to stop me, get popped papi A breddern, straight to the head that my medicine No fam of mine do time, we crime settlin Deliverancy unbelivable, Na'shon tracks smash people I chill up in the regal Eagle And plus it clap happy all of them hoes that's born happy I rip nappy, nature's to cut the roof off of Caddies You see me?
