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Nick Pearce
"By the end of the next parliament, the number of people locked up in England and Wales is likely to reach 100,000. That's twice as many people in prison compared to a decade or so ago. Already top of the western European incarceration league, we are now heading firmly towards a US-style mass penal system. I put that fact to the Danish justice minister last week, while filming a piece on criminal justice. A conservative in a centre-right coalition, she looked incredulous. Her country imprisons people at roughly half the UK rate. It does all it can to keep people out . ." [Sub Required]
