The entire criminal justice system stands on the precipice of failure, warned the Prison Governors' Association (PGA) this week, as it notified politicians that prisons in England and Wales are quite literally full.
Unless there are significant injections of funding in the relatively near future, any prediction that the system will arrive in due course at a point of collapse is not overly pessimistic.
Politicians on both sides, nervous about seeming soft on crime, are reluctant to talk about reducing sentence times, improving miserable prison conditions, and whether we actually want a ballooning prison population.
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