The good news:
Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary has come out forcefully in support of the ECHR....
The bad news:
Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary thinks the solution to the UK prison problem is to build more prisons....
And while she is right, 'Change will not happen overnight... We cannot wave a magic wand & return our legal system to its former glory'... lets hope at least the mood music will change quickly!
@ChrisMayLA6 To some extent she's right: the UK's prisons are chronically overcrowded and run-down. We need more prisons BUT we also need to reduce the number of people in prison (whether by increasing use of non-custodial sentences,stopping prosecuting victimless crimes, or improving (reducing) recidivism rates by repairing the probation service).
Of course, guess which element gets the headlines from our rabidly authoritarian and ugly press?
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