"Governments can, if they want, imprison fewer people. It really is that simple."
Final part of Dr John Moore's blog series on the history of the prison population: https://howardleague.org/blog/choosing-how-many-to-imprison-some-lessons-from-the-20th-century-history-of-english-prisons-part-2-of-2/
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In the second instalment of a two-part blog series, Dr John Moore looks at how the prison population in England and Wales expanded rapidly after 1993.