Prisons are the problem, not the solution
As a former probation officer and someone who worked extensively with criminal justice organisations in the UK and Ireland, I read with interest your correspondent Phillip Pound’s observations on the “Prison Works” debate. I agree that if you confine the debate to the fact that the public is safe from dangerous people actually serving sentences then prison does indeed “work.” He is also right in stating that problems occur when convicts are released back into the community. A criminal justice approach that is controlled by politicians who continue to pander to the public’s belief that prison sentences “protect” them is doomed to be an expensive failure. Karen Marnie Address supplied A solution for our Winter woes already exists I can understand Geoff Blackman’s frustration with elderly people not having the flu vaccination and then taking up a hospital bed..
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