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A Joint Manifesto for Penal Reform
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: A "concerted effort to reduce the number of both convicted and unconvicted prisoners by an increased use of constructive community sentences and of bail in appropriate cases" is proposed (p. 2). The suggested program of reforms that would affect this change involve: sentencing, bail, alcohol and drug misuse, mentally disturbed offenders, young offenders, prisons and the community, standards and regimes in prisons, prisoners' rights, women prisoners, British prisoner abroad, foreign prisoners in British prisons, private prisons, resettlement, race and criminal justice, and victims.