Not that they don’t want to, Tory’s made lots of laws requiring mandatory sentences for so many lesser offences, while also increasing sentences for other offences, but they didn’t expand numbers of prison places available, effectively the past 3-4 years the prison system has been at capacity
When you have a vengeful society, this is the result. Always short term with zero rehabilitation. The British state never learns from any other culture; just a second rate, poor version of America.
I bit strange, though. In the Nordic countries in Europe, a lot of prisons are closed down since alternative ways of "incarnation" are taking over. Mostly by use of ankle bracelet (first-time offenders, etc). But maybe the 100 000 include this?
Tory policy was throw them in prison for more crimes for longer sentences, little no rehabilitation policies were implemented, many of the rehabilitation programs had massive funding cuts and became ineffective, even the probation service had repeated funding cuts, less staff monitoring more people
Keeping first-time offenders out of prison and at school/work with the use of ankle bracelets has saved the Nordic countries a *ton* of money. Even though there is close monitoring, where both employers and schools has to actively participate. It has also reduced the chance of repeated offences.
Much bigger country and different issues, the is literally an unknown amount of people in prison because they can raise bail as little as $500, these can be relatively minor offences that don’t require prison time, the is a reason Biden wanted end possession of cannabis as a criminal offence
Because your prison system is a for-profit enterprise, and the prisoners are basically slave-labour. The American Dream in action. Why fix the system when it’s making money? It’s not right.
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Maybe if they did the prisons would have more occupants and fewer women would be victims in the future.
Why do we have such bad people 🤔
Once Trump's mass roundups roll out, our nation's per capita prison population is going to go through the roof... Almost literally.
Prisons will be overflowing as well.
Packed prisons. People bankrupted by hospital bills. Teenagers forced to carry their rapists' babies to term.
What a shit show