Nick Cohen writes in Sunday’s Observerto say that Ken Clarke’s desires for reform hinge on providing an alternative to incarceration. He also states that unless ministers can break with the past and provide strong and credible options to jail, reform will collapse. “It is not simply that the public won’t accept it – but the courts won’t either. If there is no drug treatment programme to send an offender on, and no probation officers to supervise him, the judges will ignore the politicians and send him to prison.”
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