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Parole is unfair and unworkable. Let’s abolish it

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

The furore over the parole granted to John Worboys, the rapist taxi driver, misses the point entirely — that the system of parole is disgraceful in theory and irredeemably unwork-able in practice. The only thing that it is good for is the employment of large numbers of officials engaged in pointless or fatuous tasks who might other-wise be unemployed.

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