Life sentences 'to be mandatory for more crimes'

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Mandatory life sentences will for the first time be extended to crimes other than murder under plans set out by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.

Anyone convicted of a second serious sexual or violent crime in England and Wales would get an automatic life term.

A new offence for 16 and 17-year-olds of threatening with a knife would also carry a mandatory custodial term.

Labour's Sadiq Khan welcomed the knife measure but said other changes could see dangerous offenders freed.

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Yes ok.. but a little more alarming is the scrapping of indeterminate sentences.
Parole boards could be forced to release dangerous prisoners.

We can't really afford our prison service and something has to be done...but is this the way forward?