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UK: We should try rehabilitating 'lifers' Given the questionable conditions life-sentence prisoners are kept in, we should be grateful more don't re-offend once released

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

We should try rehabilitating 'lifers' Given the questionable conditions life-sentence prisoners are kept in, we should be grateful more don't re-offend once released By Erwin James Sunday 8 March 2009 16.00 GMT The Guardian Of the thousand or so life-sentence prisoners released over the last six years 65 went on to seriously re-offend, the government revealed this week. Three of those released committed murder, the others were found guilty of all manner of assaults including attempted murder, rape, kidnapping and wounding. The revelations have understandably caused outrage and not surprisingly led to new calls for "life to mean life". Were that to be the case however we would need to rapidly expand the prison-building programme already planned by the government for the next few years...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).