Courts could soon be handing out more rehabilitative community sentences, rather than sending people to jail for short terms, under radical new plans.
I think you're thinking of the US system, the UK system seems to be barely holding together and the few friends I have in the UK that have ties to prison officers there tell me the private prisons are MUCH worse with gangs essentially owning the prison.
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I think you're thinking of the US system, the UK system seems to be barely holding together and the few friends I have in the UK that have ties to prison officers there tell me the private prisons are MUCH worse with gangs essentially owning the prison.