00:00We'll buy the government maybe two or three weeks. I think the government recognises this.
00:05They're hopeful that more capacity might be found in a short while because they're bringing in
00:10changes so that people serving some determinate sentences will come out a little earlier. But
00:16even that measure will only buy the government say 18 months. What we're seeing really is the
00:22straw that broke the camel's back. We've seen successive governments for decades now making
00:27sentences longer and longer, allowing the prison population to grow, and resources
00:35are insufficient to meet that demand. And the question needs to be asked now,
00:39why is it that England and Wales locks up more people than any other country in Western Europe?
00:44Wouldn't this money be better spent on hospitals, schools, jobs, things that
00:49stop crime before it happens, rather than trying to solve things afterwards?
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