http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk/hi/tft/politics/002045.php
"The problem that dogs any intelligent discussion of the justice system is that most of us don't know very much about it, because we're not policemen, lawyers or habitual criminals. Instead we tend to base our opinions on what we read in the papers or see on TV, and the media, on the whole, tends to focus on cases guaranteed to provoke outrage: the rapist who attacks again a month after being released, the 12-year-old with 50 convictions, etc. The result is that many people genuinely believe that the justice system is a criminal's playground; a place where you never get anything more than a slap on the wrist, and, if you have the sheer bad luck to actually be convicted, just get a couple of months in a cell with Sky TV, a Toshiba laptop and a Playstation."
