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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Why Sentencing is Out of Control
Description: Why is UK penal policy failing so badly? This week, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined by former Secretary of State for Justice David Gauke, who has just published Part 1 of his Independent Review into Sentencing. In the face of falling crime, why do we have the highest prison population in Western Europe, and why can’t we reduce our expensive addiction to incarceration?  The discussion looks at how other countries have embarked on a process of prison closures, and questions why a decades long penal arms...