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Originally Posted by Cherie
Thought prisons were understaffed
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Prison officers are LEAVING because they cannot cope with the stress of overcrowded prisons.
With more and more getting custodial sentences with hardly any places left in prisons for them.
I've long advocated that unless there's violence, damage to property and all sexual related offences
Prison should be a very last resort .
The last government has depleted the probation service too.
I see no point of people in prison for financial offences only, when more often than not, what was stolen is overshadowed by the cost of them being kept in prison.
With no prospect of getting any funds back.
Those people should be doing community supervised work as a payback.
Not be in prison.
Jobs like backroom work as to care, or things councils cannot get done, cleaning parks, cemeteries etc
If they've stolen from a company they could work in the grounds or do cleaning as a payback
There'd be no need for new prisons as it's already estimated by the new guy looking at this who has helped with loads of rehabilitation for prisoners.
He even says a third shouldn't be in prison in the first place anyhow.
In that case, that means over 28,000 people could be punished other ways out of prison.
Look at all the places that would then open up for really violence related and sexual crimes.
However too, the stress relief too to prison staff being able to cope with a much reduced prison population.
So they too are then retained in the prison service.