The government has announced that 4 prisons in England are to close due to a lack of inmates, more proof that the soft approach is working. Has the war on crime finally been won?
close 4 prisons and open one "super" prison in a couple of years, don't see the logic in that, we need more prisons to house all the eastern Europeans.
4 prisons are NOT closing due to a lack of inmates.
1 new super prison is not being built to accommadate the inmates from the closing prisons.
The prison population is not declining as you suggest.
There isn't really a soft approach.
Sentencing has not really changed at all. And offending hasn't changed either. So you inference that soft sentencing and a declining prison population are very wide of the mark.
more a cost cutting measure, have them all in one place, wonder how the families feel about going to visit so far away, don't have much sympathy for the cons, but the families who have to schlep miles to see their kin.
Despite this being a joke question, there's an interesting point around the prison population, which that it's doubled over the past ten years.
Violent crime is down as well. Could there be a link as the following article suggests..?