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We should firstly be asking ourselves the unaskable question: why are we in a prison crisis? Why is the prison population swelling? When we address the causes, no more prisons will need to be built. Of course, this never enters the main stream press where we are presented the only solution "BUY PRISON SHIPS".

Otherwise we'll end up like the US which incarcerates more people than anywhere in the world, even though it has fewer population than most places.

This sounds like a good idea to me, otherwise an ex-con, newly released would just go out and commit another crime to get some money. Rehab is what prison ought to be about.