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#THREAD on the urgent need for UK Prison Reform.
The UK has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe. Norway, the lowest.
In the UK, around 60% of inmates go on to reoffend within a two-year period. In Norway, the rate is 20% after two years.
How do we account for this?
The UK has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe. Norway, the lowest.
In the UK, around 60% of inmates go on to reoffend within a two-year period. In Norway, the rate is 20% after two years.
How do we account for this?
In England & wales, 47% of adults are reconvicted within a year of release. For those serving sentences of less than 12 months, this increases to 60%. For children & young people, reoffending rates rise to 75%.
In the UK, 75% of ex-inmates reoffend within nine years of release.
In the UK, 75% of ex-inmates reoffend within nine years of release.
England has one of the highest occupancy levels in Western Europe - 104% on average (in some prisons, much higher). In Norway, prisons operate at a capacity of 73%.
England & Wales has an imprisonment rate of 153/100,000 of the population, France 96, Germany 89, & Norway, 57.
England & Wales has an imprisonment rate of 153/100,000 of the population, France 96, Germany 89, & Norway, 57.
Free market capitalists INSISTED on the free movement of cheap labour - then they scapegoated migrants.
They INSISTED on deregulating the financial system - then WE bailed out the banks.
They then INSISTED on #austerity, which punished the poor, & made the rich even richer.
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They INSISTED on deregulating the financial system - then WE bailed out the banks.
They then INSISTED on #austerity, which punished the poor, & made the rich even richer.
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Since 2009, while we've endured a decade of stagnated wages, & declining living conditions & public services, according to the Times Rich List, the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in Britain - who fund the Tories - has INCREASED by a staggering £480 BILLION.
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We've had FORTY YEARS of this. Fewer than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted Tory in 2019, but because they've invested in & now pretty much own & control the news media narrative, through which they manufacture 'consent' to govern, they KEEP getting elected.
