UK: House of Commons Justice Committee: Cutting crime: the case for justice reinvestment (pdf): "the Government’s main answer to the current overcrowding of prisons and the predicted rise in the prison population—already at a record
UK: House of Commons Justice Committee: Cutting crime: the case for justice reinvestment (pdf): “the Government’s main answer to the current overcrowding of prisons and the predicted rise in the prison population—already at a record high—is to provide more prison places rather than to seek to address the root causes of this seemingly incessant growth.”