Decarceration is the key to better prisons

Britain is not the only rich country that needs a radical change in approach


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  • 10 24, 2024
  • in Leaders

“Clearly, OUR prisons are not working.” At one level David Gauke, a former Conservative justice secretary, who on October 22nd was appointed by Britain’s to run a sentencing review, was stating the obvious. . Staff have suffered almost 10,000 assaults in the past year. Unsurprisingly, retaining them is difficult; only half have more than five years’ experience. Instead, teenage officers are being deployed alone on prison wings. Most new recruits do not last even two years.

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