This latest botched attempt to solve the prisons crisis won’t work. Time to focus on rehabilitation and community sentencing
Few issues make that case clearer than the state of our prisons. On Thursday, the government’s bid to deal with soaring overcrowding will see some prisoners across 84 jails in England and Wales become eligible for early release –that “no one” would be put on the scheme – which last October began for inmates 18 days away from their release date – “if they were deemed a threat to public safety”.survivors of domestic abuse means many won’t know their abusers are free.
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