I agree with the letter: Bring back the birch in your Letters Page ofJanuary 19.
Sending these scumbags to prison does them no good at all. If it made them beter,they wouldn't keep going back inside.
They learn more in prison about crime than they do in the streets.
It definitely needs the birch bringing back, otherwise things are just going to get worse.
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