House of Commons Justice Committee report here.
Today the above report has been published. Instead of reporting on it the Daily Mail has chosen to report on an old story with this headline: MPs want to cut the jail population by a third - putting 28,000 offenders back on the streets
It is a report on the MoJ response to an earlier report by the House of Commons Justice Committee called Role of the Prison Officer published on 3 November 2009.
Why is the Daily Mail reporting old news rather than reporting on fresh news?
UPDATE: At least Charles Cowling reports that the Guardian report is up to date: MPs say £4.2bn plan to boost jail places is costly mistake
I've got the answer - prison hulks in the Thames and then, if they steal a loaf of bread, they go to Australia for seven years and if a carton of milk, for fourteen years. We'd hang the children first.
ReplyDelete"there are lots of prisoners,
ReplyDeleteespecially leaving prison who elect to say they have
no fixed address because apparently historically
some years ago if a prisoner said, “I have no fixed
address”, they would get extra money for that."
Ha! The number of times I've sat with a man and helped him do the paperwork, doing our best to keep it plausible.
Lots of interest to read in this report. Thank you for the pointer.
(I don't think Mail readers are interested in topicality. After all, things got as bad as they could some years ago. What they want now is prejudice-reinforcement -- hate porn.)