Changes to the justice system should include reducing the numbers in jail and closing some prisons to deal with a "mounting crisis", says a report.
Money must be spent locally to prevent crime, said a commission set up by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The report, on England and Wales, said years of "hyperactivity" by politicians had created more laws and prisoners but had not made people feel safer.
Meanwhile, MPs have said longer jail sentence policies are "misguided".
If Jack Straw cannot even reached a balanced and sensible decision in the Biggs case below, what chance is there that he will listen to this report?
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