Brian Begg-Robertson wrote:
"John Rowland" wrote in
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Phil McGlass wrote:

Prison does work in that it keeps ne'er-do-wells out of circulation.
It's when they are released that the problems arise.

That's like saying jumping off the top of a building is perfectly
safe, the problems only arise when you hit the ground.

Indeed. Don't these Daily Mail readers make you laugh! I am anything
but a liberal with crime and punishment, but they seem to think that
the answer to everything is to lock people up.

Maybe it is, but they shouldn't lock minor criminal youths up with hardened
old lags. Have a classification system, and then have separate bantam
prisons, heavyweight prisons etc.