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The Prison Reform that Wasn’t There
Posted by Nick Cowen in Crime on 28/09/2010
Yesterday, Jack Straw defended his record on prisons at a Fabian event at the Labour Party conference (via Next Left). Juliet Lyons of the Prison Reform Trust felt let down that New Labour had not put a stop to rising prison numbers when they were in office. The problem with her complaint is the lack of a viable alternative to prison in a great many cases. Despite years of campaigning, reformers have yet to come up with a solid evidence-based reform to our current prison system.
Too many short memories
Posted by Nick Cowen in Crime on 20/03/2008
With due credit to ‘Mr Eugenides’ whose frequent use of colourful metaphors renders him unsuitable to be linked to here, we can see the level of conviction with which the government is leading on criminal justice.
May 2000 – Straw plans `short, sharp jail shock’ for young
March 2008 – Too many short sentences – Straw