The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, and Eddie Bloomfield, Chief Inspector of Courts Administration, have compiled a Report into the crisis of overcrowded prisons and have concluded that Operation Safeguard, the emergency measure to use police and court cells is in adequate.
I don't think we needed a Report to tell us what we already know. What is the point of compiling Reports when it is doubtful that they are read by Ministers, and more than likely lay ignored on some bookshelf?
What is really needed is for the crisis to be tackled once and for all.
How tackled when the vast majority of the population don't care?
ReplyDeleteJames: I think they will start to care come October and a lot of prisoners will have to be released whether they pose a risk to the public or not. Just because Labour's protecting the public policy has failed.
ReplyDeleteReduce the size of the penal estate. It's not bigger and more people in prison which indicates law and order is working. Just the opposite. In my view, 20,000 prisoners would be about right. The remainder could be dealt with in the community, in mental hospitals and drug rehabilitation centres.