With no clear plan to manage sentencing inflation, one option becomes to release prisoners early.
- Senior Lecturer, Criminal Justice, Birmingham City University
While crime has fallen since the 1990s, this is not reflected in the prison population, which has doubled in the same period.
Evidence from Scotland reveals the presumption against shorter sentences has shown little reduction in prison numbers.
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