Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 18:31:20 on Sat,
2 Sep 2006, John Rowland
remarked:
Have a classification system, and then have separate bantam
prisons, heavyweight prisons etc.

They do.

Indeed, which is why the two youths in question have, in fact, been
sentenced to periods of detention in a Young Offenders Institution,
rather than imprisonment.

We don't know if these two have any previous, or if the decision to
impose an immediate custodial sentence was solely due to the
seriousness of the offences, but he fact is that custodial sentences
need to be available, the shortcomings of the prison system
notwithstanding.