‘It’s a silly question’: should criminals be banned from pubs instead of sent to prison?

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We’re asking people in Cardiff for their thoughts on radical new plans that would mean criminals aren’t sent to prison, but instead banned from things like sports events and pubs.

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00:00I think that's a terrible idea, I, you know, if you want, prisons are a stopgap, you know,

00:12they work for some cases, you know, some people need to be separated away from society where

00:18they cannot hurt people, you know, if you are a murderer.

00:23I think that it's like an overthrowing of the whole criminal justice system really and

00:26I think that's probably not something that will ever come into effect, so I think it's

00:30a silly question.

00:33To be honest, I don't feel like that's a good substitute, because say if you've got a very

00:39disciplined person, so for example, like a disciplined bank robber, if you ban sports

00:46events or something, that's like nothing, he can just discipline himself to put himself,

00:51so that's not really, and obviously that's one end of the spectrum, but like that's not

00:56really a punishment to be honest.

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