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Editor's Pick: 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.

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