The answer to the prison crisis is simpler than we think
The BBC headline reads “An extra 2,100 prison officers are to be recruited to ease staffing shortages in jails in England and Wales, Justice Secretary Liz Truss will say later“. But we are looking in the wrong direction for the answer because we need to treat the cause not the symptoms. Yes! Extra prison officers would be a definite benefit to an overcrowded, over stretched, under appreciated system. Yes! We need to do something to prevent prison officers being attacked in the course of their duties, this is unacceptable. Yes! Prison officers job should be one of helping with...
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