Texas. Big country, big ideas. The new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has become enamoured with an intriguing idea from the Lone Star state – letting prisoners out early for good behaviour.
Those of you who still watch reruns of Porridge on BritBox will be having déjà vu. Back before the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 ended it due to preference for a more risk-based approach, remission was a central feature of prisoners’ lives.
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