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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Is prison the wrong place for some offenders?
Description: I’m liking what Sir Ron Young is saying about prison sentences today. He’s really challenging us, saying that we need to re-think what we do with people given sentences of two-to-three years. He’s talking about not sending them to conventional prisons and giving them conjugal rights. This is how they deal with things in Scandinavian countries. He thinks we should do the same here. And I reckon we should too. He’s the outgoing head of the Parole Board and he’s saying that short prison sentences aren’t working an...