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Editorial: UK: Let the penal reformers build jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Let the penal reformers build jails 02/09/2008 Telegraph (UK) In truth, the prison reform group Nacro has never been much in favour of building new jails. Over the years, the organisation has sought to rebrand itself from a do-gooder outfit known as the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders, preferring to describe itself as a ?crime reduction charity?. It has been consistently critical of the criminal justice policies of successive governments, not least because they have pushed the prison population up from around 50,000 in the mid-1990s to more than 80,000 today. Nacro has argued that many in jail should not be there. Its decision, then, to join a consortium of private bidders seeking a contract to operate new prisons is of more than passing interest...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).