Post Debate: Working Your Way Back Into Society ; Home Secretary Charles Clarke Wants to Increase Dramatically the Number of Community Sentences Given to Convicted Offenders. While It Will Undoubtedly Have the Happy Consequence of Curbing Over- Crowding in Britain's Prisons, Is It a Soft Option for Offenders? Emma Pinch Reports

Birmingham Post › March 31, 2006

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Ten years from now, if the Home Secretary has his way, the sight of a yellow-jacketed offender cheerfully painting fences will be a familiar sight.

No old people's home will be complete without a sensory garden, built by a company of men working at Her Majesty's pleasure, and graffiti will be scrubbed clean almost before it's sprayed.

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Post Debate: Working Your Way Back Into Society ; Home Secretary Charles Clarke Wants to Increase Dramatically the Number of Community Sentences Given to Convicted Offenders. While It Will Undoubtedly Have the Happy Consequence of Curbing Over- Crowding in Britain's Prisons, Is It a Soft Option for Offenders? Emma Pinch Reports

Best of all, thanks to their proximity to the community they've transgressed, they will have no urge to sin again.

Will it cut reoffending and is it really justice?...

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