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| OpEd: More prisons make more prisoners |
| By The Independent UK |
| Published: 11/14/2008 |
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UNITED KINGDOM - Since 1992, the year I was first incarcerated, there has been an obvious shift in this country's prison policy. Society is in the grip of an unfocused moral panic to which the criminal justice system has reacted by adopting policy obsessed with public protection and dominated by a retributive ideal. The past 10 years have seen the introduction of about 3,000 new criminal offences. When I was first jailed, prison was seen as one punishment among a range of valid options. Now it is the case that imprisonment is perceived, and indeed, promoted as the only legitimate form of punishment. And so prison simply has too many objectives to juggle. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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