‘An update on imprisonment:
It costs around £45,000 a year to keep a youth in prison, £17,000 more than a place at Eton.
The Ministry of Justice admit that about 75% of children released from prison will reoffend within a year.
The prison population currently exceeds 85,000 people and the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has had the courage to face up to reality and suggest that we need to drastically reduce this overcrowding. Even if probably driven by economic necessity, I applaud this sea change in government thinking. Let’s see how it pans out in the next year.’
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