Juvenile Justice System - Irish Indo'

TheQuietFella

independent.ie/incoming/juvenile-justice-system-incapable-of-dealing-with-violent-young-men-who-prowl-the-streets-30468031.html

Just browsing through the Indo' this morning & these guys between them
had nearly seventy convictions between them & they never saw the inside
of a jail cell!!! Where is the deterrent?

coylemj

Judge McCartan said the three attackers had come through the “well-worn path” of the juvenile criminal justice system, which he said did not seem “in any way adequately resourced or capable of dealing with them.”

He said the three men had been through the courts time and time again and were offered all the alternatives to custodial sentences, including community services, probation supervision and fines.

I don't know what alternative the judge is suggesting should have happened unless he means that they should have been locked up much earlier.

Pat McCartan was the busiest free legal aid solicitor in the Dublin District Courts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was the 'go to' man for all the professional shoplifters, ne'er do wells and assorted recidivists - when asked by the district justice on their first appearance on a charge if they wanted free legal aid, they invariably replied 'I want Mr. McCartan'. He knows the system inside out and has done so long before he became a T.D. and then a judge.

http://www.independent.ie/incoming/juvenile-justice-system-incapable-of-dealing-with-violent-young-men-who-prowl-the-streets-30468031.html