Why are prisons overcrowded? Because no government will stand up to the tabloids

Zoe Williams 31 Aug United Kingdom

Whatever happens to the early release scheme, Andy Burnham needs to consider the possibility that sentences are just too high Prisons in England and Wales are full because sentences have increased, and everybody knows this. Lord chief justices know this – four of them said it outright in a report for the Howard League two years ago – ministers know it, and anyone who can count knows it. The prison

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