In this, the third of our guest bloggers, we hear from Paul Cowley. Paul is an Ambassador for Make Justice Work and is also Executive Director of Caring for Ex-Offenders and The William Wilberforce Trust.

I’ve heard it proposed that the purpose of prison is fourfold:

1. Punish the offender for the crime committed
2. Protect the public
3. Rehabilitate the offender
4. Deter people from committing more crime

So the question is do short sentences achieve these aims?
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