http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1550410,00.html
"The criminal justice system doesn't work. It's a mess. It's a waste of money. It's a badly managed attempt to implement policies which would not work even if they were well managed. It's been hijacked by politicians for their own populist ends. It doesn't catch many criminals, it doesn't dispense much justice and it's no kind of system at all. "