Tougher sentencing has filled Britain’s prisons – but it has not made the country safer. The driver for the prison overcrowding crisis is decades of political choices on sentencing, says Lord Burnett T he prisons in England and Wales are full, and successive governments have struggled to increase capacity as the numbers of prisoners rise . The prison population is determined by the type and length of sentence, the regimes in place for release from custody, and the recall of prisoners for breach

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