We're planning for an extra 20,000 prisoners. The cost of incarcerating one prisoner is roughly £40k p.a. With £40k here & £40k there, & a new prison here & a new prison there, quite soon we're talking big money.
https://twitter.com/CrestAdvisory/status/1464218127500206082
Remorseless tinkering with the law, always with a view to filling up these warehouses of human misery at vast expense to the rest of us.
Nowhere else in Western Europe feels the need to imprison so many of its citizens. The Netherlands, a country very similar to Britain, has been emptying its prisons and its crime rate has plummeted. 
It cut crime not by longer sentences but by shorter sentences!
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