But I'm with FairMind - it's our legal system that sucks.
The prisons are so full that only the ***most violent and dangerous*** offenders are being jailed. Quite a few prisoners have been released early recently with tags (supposed to be some sort of house arrest thing!) - which has also caused uproar, plus a lot of offences have been 'downgraded' to not entailing a prison sentence any more.
This country is gonna descend into complete anarchy before long.
Flipper/snakes - even if he had been jailed, he'd be what's called a 'section 43' prisoner - they are segregated from the main prison population for their own safety