Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime - but which crimes and which causes?
Labour is trying to find ways of signalling that more liberal prison policies are not simply some daffy leftwing notion
So, 1,700 prisoners were released in September, and more this week; the ultimate target is to empty 5,500 prison spaces in total. This balance has preoccupied Starmer, as a former head of the Crown Prosecution Service, and his justice secretary Shabana Mahmood, who has admitted that the “recall rate” of people reoffending within weeks of freedom is “likely to be very high”.
As Justice Secretary under Theresa May, Gauke was “messianic”, one fellow Tory minister recalls, about lessening shorter sentences where the gains were dubious – it would, he said, do “more harm than good” in hardening early-stage criminals by exposure to worse ones.
These are ways of signalling that more liberal prison policies are not simply some daffy leftwing notion. But the problem given low investment in technology is that the government’s aims risk sounding contradictory.
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