Post Debate: These Penalties Are Not a Soft Option ; Prof David Wilson, Lecturer in Criminology at Uce and Former Prison Governor, Says Community Penalties Are Not a Soft Punishment

Birmingham Post › March 31, 2006

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I am a great believer in community penalties.

Prisons are an expensive way of making bad people worse. We know that if you put somebody in jail you accelerate their criminality rather than doing something to stop them committing crime.

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Post Debate: These Penalties Are Not a Soft Option ; Prof David Wilson, Lecturer in Criminology at Uce and Former Prison Governor, Says Community Penalties Are Not a Soft Punishment

Two out of every three adults who leave prison have been reconvicted in two years. Four out of five young people reconvict within two y...

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