Justice and penal reform

[Donki]

I know it is the DM - but I really thought this was interesting
[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norways-controversial-cushy-prison-experiment--catch-UK.html here]
As usual ignore the headline and read the actual article.

I know it is the DM - but I really thought this was interesting
here
As usual ignore the headline and read the actual article.

Ooops

We should do what is necessary to reduce offending. If that means making prison more pleasant we should do that.

Further food for thought here. Sentence length and reoffending

I saw that article - the headline is rather misleading isn't it since whilst shorter sentences had a greater re-offending rate than longer sentences, non-custodial sentences had the lowest re-offending rate. Of course, that may be down to the offenders who are most likely to re-offend being given custodial sentences instead of non-custodial ones...

difficult impossible to know without seeing the research. (Assuming that they took factors like that into account)