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Sarah Jones, Labour MP for Croydon Central, has told parliament that harsher jail sentences were "simply not working," as she asked the government to look at the option of banning young offenders from social media if they used it to incite violence.
Jones said: "The proportion of people receiving a custodial sentence for knife possession has risen from 40 percent in 2010 to almost 70 percent today and yet in the last five years knife crime has been on a sustained and shocking increase, suggesting that harsher sentences are simply not the answer.
"Will the Attorney General look at two things, one some creative alternatives to prison such as electronic tagging or banning young people from social media if they're using it to incite violence.
Comment: It's apparently too daunting a task for Facebook to understand that people actually don't like tyrannical thought police who invade their privacy and tell them what to think.