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U.K: Justice Secretary plans to close prisons through instituting reforms---! What a concept.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Proper investment in community solutions and mental healthcare, effective working between departments and greater devolution to local authorities would cut crime and reduce reoffending. This could be the first government to prove that closing prison works." Kenneth Clarke pledges to cut daily prison population Justice secretary says planned sentencing reforms and 'rehabilitation revolution' will 'stem unsustainable rise in UK prison population' By Alan Travis and Afua Hirsch, The Guardian Wednesday 20 October 2010 The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, today made an unexpected pledge to cut the record 85,000 daily prison population in England and Wales by 3,000 within four years. The Treasury endorsed Clarke's claim that his planned sentencing reforms and "rehabilitation revolution" would "stem the unsustainable rise in the UK prison population"...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).