Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: One of the reasons that the UK has a prisons crisis is dues to (what the FT has ...

One of the reasons that the UK has a prisons crisis is dues to (what the FT has dubbed) 'sentencing inflation'; in the last decade or so, prison sentences for a range of convictions have risen.

What the balance between political direction & judicial normative change is, is another Q., but practically this lies at the heart of the problem(s) James Timpson (who seems to have gone very quiet, perhaps due to the enormity of the task he's been set) needs to deal with....

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