Monday, October 09, 2006

UK top judge questions efficacy of crowded prisons / Jurist NewsBurst, 9 Oct 2006

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Caitlin Price
"Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers [BBC profile] expressed doubts about whether non-violent offenders are actually rehabilitated in prison during an interview [text] published Sunday in the British newspaper The Observer. In light of serious overpopulation of British prisons [Times report], the Lord Chief Justice questioned traditional prison sentences' ability to thwart recidivism: "Those interventions are rendered difficult or impossible if prisons are as full as now."