Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday 19 June 2007
The Prison Population Explosion
If we did as many other countries do and handed out short prison sentences to relatively minor offenders in the early stages of their criminal careers, then, like those countries, we'd have hardly any long-serving prisoners. As it is, we don't send people to prison until they are too hardened to care.
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