Our failing prisons are a national disgrace - the whole system of incarceration needs to change
, educational or mental-health struggles that fall through gaps in other parts of the public sector and are then intensified in prison.reoffending
“Wandsworth is fairly typical of most inner city Victorian prisons,” said Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, this weekend. A few months after I visited, one of his predecessors quit, fearing he was growing desensitised to horror after repeatedly seeing squalor and disturbingly high levels of self-harm and suicide.
Prisons deliver a form of punishment that might be familiar to those thrown behind bars when places such as Wandsworth were built two centuries ago. But they fail to curb reoffending, despite surging numbers. And as shown by a recent study for the Sentencing Council, the severity of sentences has “no effect on the level of crime in society”, since criminal acts are often spontaneous, driven by fury, intoxication or mental health episodes.
Albutt accused politicians of duping voters by pushing a myth that jailing more and more people for lengthening terms makes society safer. “It’s a lie,”. “Prison does not work.” Other countries prove the benefits of reform. The Netherlands, which used to match British incarceration rates, has less than half our reincarceration rate after seeing that reducing use of prison had little impact on crime levels while freeing cash to tackle social issues.
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