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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The problem is this is incredibly expensive, frankly locking people up is crap holes is very expensive, any improvement on that comes at increasingly higher costs, well worth it in my opinion but an easy target for generally right wing politics, you will get a raft of headlines asking why our pensioners live in poverty while murderers and rapists live in the lap of luxury and the like
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Ya I know it's not going to happen anytime soon simply because it's a long term plan. You'd have to spend billions to get new prisons built and/or existing prisons reformed, and you wouldn't see the true gains for at least a generation or two. And that's the biggest failing of our political system, leaders will not do the neccessary things to improve life in this country if it can't help them win the next election