Theodore Dalrymple on Prisons
'The overall cost of the criminal justice system has risen from 2% of GDP to 2.5% over the last 10 years. That is a higher per capita level than the US or any EU country. Each new prison place now costs £170,000 over the life of the accommodation. The cost per prisoner per year is £41,000. The justice committee warns that, on current estimates, the government's new prison plans would condemn it to finding an extra £4.2bn over the next 35 years.
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Yet prison has a poor record for reducing reoffending – 47% of adults are reconvicted within one year of being released. For petty offenders, serving sentences of less than 12 months, this increases to 60%. For children and young people in custody the rate of reoffending rises to 75%. Reoffending by ex-prisoners costs society at least £11bn per year.
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No surprise then that the justice committee saw the need for a rigorous examination of more effective ways to cut crime.
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Justice re-investment would shift the focus of expenditure away from incarceration and towards rehabilitation and prevention. This would involve investment in local education, health, drug, alcohol and community programmes in targeted areas based on analyses of where offences occur, where offenders live and what works in reducing offending. Investment in local solutions would free prison governors and staff to deal more effectively with people whose offending is so serious or violent that there can be no alternative to custody.
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Re-investment of this kind will require funding transfers between the criminal justice system and service provided outside it, often at the local level. In turn, these will help to address the problem of centrally funded prisons being seen as a "free good", while potentially more effective interventions depend on the budgets of local authorities, health trusts or other local agencies and may not be available for courts to deploy. According to the justice committee, many community-based programmes aimed at tackling problems like alcohol misuse and mental ill-health are chronically under-funded.
Prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Press Policy, 2020.
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Not, Why, 'truth', matters? But..., 'What', 'truth', matters?
Theodore Dalrymple 'surprises', with opportunity for us to, 'live and learn'.
Taken from James' comment on 'Hard To LøVë, Part 2. (Truthscoop, June 19, 2020).
'In fairness I must confess that my own coverage of Russia was terribly weak and one sided and ultimately largely worthless. We live and learn.'
James Robertson, (Crimes of Empire).
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Note the sequence?
As for, 'weak'?
Comes from one, of the handful who write on the net.
Say again;. ...Write, On-The-Net.
Wiley, to, me?
'S.Awan', (Burning Blogger of Bedlam), James told me yesterday on one of our rare/long/chats, is back. 'Stage and equipment out, and the first 'number'.
"Soon come."
Burningblogger.com.
Truthscoop.net/call-this-a-marker, May 02, 2019.
Is he..., Wiley?
"Here I come UK...", rockin' and ready, for a 'write/graph.' With, and to:
– contributions/ smash/ clash/ 'smash', self-consciousness/ collaborations/ re-mix/ 'experiment/s'/ laugh/ try/ "don't try"/ dance/ ritual/ response, and/or..?
Storm callin'. "Seen".
Next two (new) playlists and charts?
"Soon...", 'Top Twenty Vlad TV'. [My] Top Twenty on the Internet. Vlad TV Top 20, = top twenty, on the net. Top Twenty Music Videos? Are 'routines' and 'classes'. So, '2020_04_jump_to_it, Part 2.'
"...coming, and, ...cool runnings."
2020_08_jump_to_it Part 2.
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Steve:
Vlad Top 20, All-Time, so-far, first and second place. Same interview. When I consider the 18 clips behind it, that does, say something. All unique people, some unusual. Most, unusual, and, 'O.G.', King Tone.
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[An image representing, 'masks and what we must do'? And, the singer and his 'missus'.]
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