Repeating mistakes of US prisons

Make Justice Work in The Guardian.

Repeating mistakes of US prisons

“I, too, am deeply concerned that by pouring over £2.3bn into Titan warehouses, throwing even more money at a system which is dangerously overstretched and fails to reduce reoffending, we risk replicating the worst aspects of US penal policy. What’s more, I fear this will happen without any reasoned debate – without the public ever knowing how much we plan to spend on policies that will not make them safer…“