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    Labour urged to scrap £4bn Tory mega-jails plan and fund rehabilitation
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    Labour urged to scrap £4bn Tory mega-jails plan and fund rehabilitation

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    2. mao_was_right on

      Don’t need to build more prisons when you can just let the cons out when you get full.

    4. Toastlove on

      Some people can’t be rehabilitated and dont want to be. It’s not all about punishment, sometimes you keep need to keep people away from the rest of society because they ruin things for everyone else, something like 1% of offenders commit 60% of crimes in a given area.

    5. Apprehensive_Ear7068 on

      What they going to do with all the people that commit a thought crime on twitter?

    6. ScallionOk6420 on

      As this is the chap who resigned in protest at John Worboys being kept in prison, perhaps it would be best to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

    8. Public_Growth_6002 on

      Keeping people in prison is very expensive, so if someone can guarantee that rehabilitation will work, with the resulting protections to society, then great, don’t build more prisons.

      Until that miracle guarantee happens, society as a whole benefits from offenders / criminals / menaces etc being denied their freedom.

    9. XenorVernix on

      Oh the old prevention is better than deterrent logic. You could spend the entire government budget on preventing crime and you still wouldn’t stop all of it. That’s not how the world works. With prisons overflowing and the population of the country surging then it’s clear we need more prisons along with everything else that we’re not getting.

    10. qzapwy on

      Please just build some infrastructure in this country that isn’t already at 100% capacity several years before it opens.

    13. youdoyoufella on

      With respect, this is the wrong move. People are gaming the system because they know people are not getting sentences.

    14. AcademicIncrease8080 on

      when there are literally no consequences to crime then more and more people will figure out they can get away with it e.g. I now frequently see people in stores like Greggs casually strolling up and grabbing a few baguettes for their lunch and walking out without paying, don’t even other to cover their faces 😛

    15. t0wser on

      It would be cheaper and a better long term plan to sort out what makes people commit crime in the first place – you know a close the gate before the horse has bolted type thing…

    16. fhdhsu on

      I’m tired, man.

      A person being sent to prison is now more likely to be a >46th time offender than they are to be a first time offender.

      Why do the rest of us have to live in a broken society fearful of being victimised because of, literally what comes out to a rounding error of the population.

      No individual deserves 47 chances. At what point do the rest of us get a second chance to live our lives without them?

    18. Pyriel on

      We need both.

      A growing population requires more capacity, including prison spaces

      We also need to move from always punish by imprisonment to a wider spectrum justice system.

      The balance between punishment and rehabilitation needs a lot of work.