James Timpson (the new, and widely welcomed) new Prisons Minister has made some mileage in the past out of arguing that the UK should adopt a more Dutch approach to sentencing & imprisonment - given that this may now be going mainstream (with his appointment), here Seenay Boztas (from Amsterdam, for the Guardian) offering some further detail on what that might actually entail.
#prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/12/could-britain-solve-prisons-crisis-going-dutch
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