"Last month's report on sentencing from a group of former heads of the judiciary ended with a stark warning that the country faces a future of US-style mass incarceration... The judges are right to sound the alarm."
"Spending by the prison and probation service has ballooned to 4.6bn... around three-quarters of which goes on prisons, including 100m spent on keeping more than 2,000 men over 70 locked up."
"Conditions in many jails are appalling... drones delivering drugs through windows that have been broken to enable this."
"The lack of alternatives to custody and low public confidence in existing ones have fuelled a widespread belief that voters along with the rightwing press prefer... longer sentences."
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