The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has published a report questioning community sentences’ role in efforts to control the use of custody.The report looks back at attempts over the last decade to reduce prison demands by reforming community sentences and promoting their use to sentencers and the public. It argues that at best such reforms might have contributed to slowing future prison growth but they do not offer a coherent, credible solution to tackle a prison population nearly double that of the generation before.
You can download the full report here: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/rssasolutiontopenalexcess.html
