Dec 6, 2007

Britain and America Leading the World in Jailing Their Populations


One can read Glenn C. Loury in The Boston Review analysing the increasingly putative nature of the American criminal justice system.

Britain has the same problem.

Nigel Morris has a piece in The Independent: As the Government plans to build more jails, the shocking state of crime and punishment in Britain is revealed.
America and Britain leading the world in putting its' populations behind bars; something is wrong with this picture.

Writes Morris:

The Government was accused yesterday of trying to build its way out of the prisons overcrowding crisis as it outlined its vision for the construction of three supersize jails which would bring the number of offenders behind bars to almost 100,000.

Despite stark reminders from penal reform experts that more people are already locked up in England and Wales than anywhere else in western Europe, Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, said he was pressing ahead.

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