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The evidence is that intensive community sentences reduce reoffending more than short jail sentences. An offender can spend three months doing nothing in prison and cost us £11,000 while for half [...]

The Independent’s leader (Overcrowded prisons are a national disgrace, 24 Nov) is right to call short prison sentences the most obviously dysfunctional part of what Ken Clarke called our [...]

The argument that prison is the answer to tackling re-offending is flawed (Daily Express, Opinion, 24 November).  Most offenders who serve short prison sentences re-offend once they are [...]

While the right in Texas have started to look at more effective ways of punishing and rehabilitating offenders, Britain’s prison population is now at a record high (Ian Birrell, 21 November).  [...]

Fay Selvan is CEO of The Big Life group of social businesses and charities which works across the north of England.  The group deliver a range of services and opportunities to the most excluded [...]

The Blackpool Gazette has reported a SERIAL burglar who broke into a Blackpool home just hours after he was released from prison has been jailed for two years.