Britain is not addicted to punishing criminals
Mr Timpson, the new prisons minister, is the head of a company that employs about 600 ex-prisoners, and this is an admirable and humane social service. But good as this experience is, it is insufficient to decide on public policy as a whole. In a recent interview, Mr Timpson said that there were far too many people
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