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Podcast: Hiraeth - Welsh Politics
Episode: Re-imagining Justice in Wales
Description: The 'England and Wales' justice system has already been in the news for all the wrong reasons in 2024. Many years of underfunding and uneven and unsuccessful policy have left it creaking. Against a backdrop of underfunding, crumbling court estate, and widening legal deserts, the new UK Government's first major act in the sector has been to engage in widespread early release in prisons to manage capacity. It is a sector on the brink of crisis.
Of course here at the Hiraeth Pod we call it the 'Wales and England' justice system and in the latest of our pods examining the...