End the prison system!
When the Home Office recently (27 July) released its projections for the UK prison population, the Howard League for Penal Reform commented: “The prison population is currently at a record high of 78,500. This is 75% higher than 15 years ago when the population was 45,000. Last Friday there were 4,492 women in prison and 11,490 young men and boys aged under 21.” More than nine million people around the world are in prison. The country that imprisons the most is the USA. According to the World Prison Population List, published each year by the International Centre for Prison Studies, in...