Your daily reminder that by pretending that locking more people up for longer is the key to criminal justice, and by ignoring the chronic delays and lack of resources for courts, police, CPS, legal aid, probation and prisons, the government is taking the public for fools.
Damning National Audit Office analysis of Govt’s prison building & maintenance programme concludes there could be a shortage of places from 2022:
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