Right Jesus doing what people on the right do best, build up the systems that disproportionally impact people of colour. But he helped a black woman across the road once.
Right Jesus doing what people on the right do best, build up the systems that disproportionally impact people of colour. But he helped a black woman across the road once.
I’m all for a better, more humane justice system. But prisons are inhumanely overcrowded today. Better alternatives, whether aimed at crime prevention or rehabilitation, will take a while to get up and running and longer to have any effect on prison numbers.
So, to solve this problem, in the short term we have to either release people early (without any programmes to help them back into the community) and just hope they don’t reoffend, or increase prison provision. This is the same reason the 2019 Labour manifesto promised to recruit more prison officers and spend more on prison maintenance (before the problem of overcrowding was so acute) alongside less reliance on prison for crime prevention.
Labour’s 2024 plans are here, for reference. They are definitely not just ‘bang people up and forget about it’, although I prefer the 2019 policies, to be honest.