Thread by @docrussjackson

Prisons are full of marginalised people who struggle to function & who exhibit problematic behaviour.

The criminal justice system is very expensive in fiscal & also in human terms, & is ill-equipped to address, alter the problematic behaviour.'

transformingsociety.co.uk/2021/11/18/the…

"We need deep systemic reform which recognises that the resolution of issues of public safety involves engaging other institutions in civil society including health & housing, workforce development, family & child welfare."

We urgently need "deeper systemic reform, one which recognises that the resolution of issues of public safety involves engaging other institutions in civil society including health and housing, workforce development, family and child welfare."

"The Justice Reinvestment initiatives developed to date have tended to concentrate on a reallocation of existing funding from criminal justice to social and community programmes but ultimately there will have to be a more radical approach."

"One possible means of achieving this could be through what is known as the theory of human development which, in the words of the @UN, is based on the principle of ‘expanding the richness of human life, rather than simply the richness of the economy in which human beings live’."

"The human development approach focuses on realising the full potential of people so as to increase their access to opportunity & choice: a positive focus on future improvement in contrast to the criminal justice approach with its retrospective focus on the reduction of crime."