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UK: Prison doesn't work:

01 January 2003

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New Home Office research, which flies in the face of the government's "prison works" strategy, shows that community based sentences cut re-offending rates more effectively. The research, Home Office Ministers admit, shows that 44% of offenders given community-based sentences are re-convicted within two years, compared with 56% of those sent to jail. The Home Office further concedes that, if the prison population continues to increase at its current rate, it will have risen from 72,000 to 110,000 by 2009. Independent 4.2.03; Miscarriages of Justice UK 4.2.03.

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