'Boris Johnson is right - having bigger prisons will lead to fewer crooks'
WHEN Britain’s prisons are full to bursting and violent crime is going through the roof, prime ministers face a simple choice.
So it would be better not to have them at all, dealing instead with these criminals in the community.And it’s certainly true that reoffending rates for such offenders remain scandalously high.First, the impact of letting these people out on the victims of crime, who are disproportionately the poorest in society.
Secondly, the Gauke plan assumed that the system for dealing with offenders in the community is fit for purpose.They wouldn’t resort to giving prison sentences so often if there was a decent alternative. The think tank I work for, Policy Exchange, has published research showing that “the key determinant of the decency, safety and effectiveness of a prison is not its size, but its age”.
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