Given that GlobalNet21 will be holding a meeting tomorrow with OnlyConnect on Tackling Crime Through Rehabilitation the following statement from the Howard League for Penal Reform is very relevant. Courts in England and Wales wasted almost £250m last year by remanding people in custody unnecessarily, a prison reform charity has said. The Howard League for Penal Reform said more than 35,000 people remanded in custody in 2013 went on to be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences.he Howard Leagues chief executive, Frances Crook, told BBC Breakfast that magistrates need to think very carefully before they use prison. She said remanding people in custody can be devastating and called on courts to review their decision-making process. She called for more people to be granted bail before their trial begins. Our prisons are squalid and our prisoners are idle, yet the courts are continuing to remand innocent people and people accused of petty crime at huge public expense. It is time to end this unjust system, which is costing the nation money that could be better spent, she added. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28828910
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:42:48 +0000
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