To: Kevin Foster MP
Give young offenders a second chancechance
I would like to see the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 changed a little.
I would like the time period a spent sentence is declaredto be increased to 5 years for anyone who committed a crime under the age of 18.
What I mean by this is to have a spent sentence removed from record after 5 years of good behavior if the person was under the age of 18 when committing the crime
I would like the time period a spent sentence is declaredto be increased to 5 years for anyone who committed a crime under the age of 18.
What I mean by this is to have a spent sentence removed from record after 5 years of good behavior if the person was under the age of 18 when committing the crime
Why is this important?
I committed three armed robbery's at the age of 16 this was due to my circumstances, which were that I was homeless, had no family or friends to turn to, On drugs and had my life threaten with death if i didn't do it.
I put myself in prison because it was the safest place for me i couldn't turn to anyone for help i was completely alone. during my time inside i begun to see the error of my ways and don't commit crime anymore but yet these mistakes were made in a most stressful and desperate time in my life i shouldn't have to pay all my life for a mistake i made when i was 16 i didn't hurt anyone i didn't kill anyone i stole from a business now this itself the reason i did it now this small change will give thousands of people a second chance a chance to be somebody were refused thousands of jobs each year because of our criminal records and i think this small change would be a second chance to help reduce offending if prisons know before there release that if they behave then their is a second chance
I put myself in prison because it was the safest place for me i couldn't turn to anyone for help i was completely alone. during my time inside i begun to see the error of my ways and don't commit crime anymore but yet these mistakes were made in a most stressful and desperate time in my life i shouldn't have to pay all my life for a mistake i made when i was 16 i didn't hurt anyone i didn't kill anyone i stole from a business now this itself the reason i did it now this small change will give thousands of people a second chance a chance to be somebody were refused thousands of jobs each year because of our criminal records and i think this small change would be a second chance to help reduce offending if prisons know before there release that if they behave then their is a second chance
