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Brian Cheung on Criminal justice reform and rehabilitation
The chief problem of the criminal justice system is arguably the sheer quantity of individuals being locked up. The prison population is upwards of 85,000, which means about 1 in every 1,000 UK residents. Prisons are overcrowding. A second problem, closely related to the first, is the cost of imprisonment. It has been estimated that the annual average cost of imprisonment is £40,000 per prisoner and that the marginal cost (i.e. of each new place in prison) is £119,000.
Exchange Editor on Wikileaks best pick
Do you know what WIKILEAKS is? On their words: “WikiLeaks is a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public.
President on UN declares clean water a ‘fundamental human right’
Roni on Cuts or Exploitation?
Roni on The Aid Flotilla
1st June.
The governments in the West have been less than united in their response to the imposition of this blockade, except for occasional mild utterings of their ‘deep regrets’ and ‘unacceptable’ nature of it. This has been less than satisfactory for many in the West. The number of high profile westerners on Gaza aid flotilla is an indication of that.
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