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Why does Britain have such a high prison population?
Ken Clarke’s recent interventions have put the question of Britain’s high prison population back on the agenda.
Ken Clarke’s recent interventions have put the question of Britain’s high prison population back on the agenda.
Between the mid 1950s and the mid 1970s the number of prisoners in England and Wales doubled, from 20,000 to 40,000 inmates. A further 20,000 inmates had been added to the prison population by the...