Richard, I would not go along with your proposals as you have suggested here because I believe that it could spiral out of control. Would an armed robber who serves eight years then do that sentence again if he is caught for shoplifting? If there is no proportionality it can lead to extremes and undermine the concept of justice.
I also think that parole or early release can be beneficial if it is an incentive to good behaviour and not automatic. By making early release too generous, and effectively automatic, it destroys the whole purpose of both the sentencing system and the parole system.
Obviously, where people are released early and then offend again it is right that they should go back and serve the rest of their sentence (since there is a conditionality attached to parole). Again, however, it has to be proportionate.
Maybe you could work these things together to have a proper (non-automatic) policy on parole and the proportionate forfeiture of parole in the case of people offending again.
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