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Frances Crook
"Early release schemes are never a solution, but rather a desperate last-minute measure that masks the failure at the heart of Home Office policymaking. The central problem is the question: what is prison for? The best analogy is to liken the penal system to the health service. Prisons, like hospitals, are the acute end of a service. Prisons alone cannot make a society safer, just as hospitals alone do not make a nation healthier; both have a place in a wider public service. Two thirds of released prisoners will reoffend. So prison should be used sparingly and only for public protection, because if used profligately it generates more crime rather than reducing it."
