It is by no means clear that the Prime Minister agrees with James Timpson, his new minister of state for prisons, parole and probation
Timpson will oversee policy on a day-to-day basis, and he may be persuasively evangelical
There is an important point to note, however. Timpson is a passionate believer in rehabilitation through employment, not just for the economic benefit but as a preventative measure. “The best way to avoid people going back to prison is to give them a good job,” he said in 2011. But his views on the criminal justice system go much further than that.
How will this apparent conundrum be resolved? Professor Ian Acheson, a former prison governor and author of the recent book, noted that “Starmer is literally the man who was in charge of prosecuting criminals”. A wholesale shift away from incarceration would be a radical response to re-offending, but it would also have much deeper long-term implications for the way we conceive of the criminal justice system. As Acheson remarks, “if prisons exist solely to prevent recidivism, we are at the end point of the greatest public policy failure since the poll tax”.
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