Thousands of new prison spaces to be created

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  1. Be great if we could use them to house all the dodgy Tory MP’s and the prime minister.

  2. Prisons are ridiculously overcrowded, which leads to lower rehabilitation rates and prisons releasing people early to create space, when they still pose a threat to everybody else.

    Hopefully they’ll create enough spaces, and do more rehab work too.

  3. When the country becomes worse and worse to live in, crime will go up. Building prisons doesn’t tackle anything, it just funnels money to G4S (donors) and get rid of more poor folk. Honestly, building prisons to lock more people away. shameful and disgusting.

  4. Ah brilliant, I was just thinking ‘what we really need to help bring down crime is more spaces in privatised prisons’.

  5. Since our population of adults increases by hundreds of thousands every year. Then it stands to reason we’ll need more prison places to accommodate them

    “”””There were 9,850 (2,730 remand, 6,116 sentenced and 954 non-criminal) foreign nationals held in custody and the HMPPS-operated Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) at Morton Hall as at 31 March 2021, representing 13% of the total prison population.

    While the overall prison population has decreased by 6%, the number of FNOs in the prison (and HMPPS IRC) population has increased by 6% compared to 31 March 2020. The most common nationalities after British Nationals in prisons are Albanian (16% of the FNO prison population), Polish (8%), Romanian (8%), Irish (6%), Jamaican (4%), and Lithuanian (4%).””””””

    The prison population overall went down by 6% but the number of foreign nationals in prisons increased by 6%
    If only there was a way we could do something about that maybe we wouldn’t need to build additional prisons.
    Oh wait there is.

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