By Robin Beste, Stop the War Coalition, WarIsACrime.org
Jack Straw, former foreign secretary in Tony Blair's government, was quick to his feet, following David Cameron's speech on the UK riots in Parliament on 11 August. "We need more prisons," Straw told Cameron and the House of Commons. He may get his wish, looking at some of the sentences that have already been handed down in the hundreds of cases rushed through emergency courts—no doubt at the government's bidding, to show that instant retribution will take precedence over justice.