21/05/2025
🚨 'PRISON DOESN'T WORK', THEY SAY
Tomorrow we'll be told, yet again, that in the UK we send too many people to prison for too long. We'll be told that prison doesn't work.
Don't believe a word of it.
Take the man below, who has previous convictions for 21 offences against children. He has been caught again, while out in the community - alone with a six-year-old girl that he was grooming in south London.
The only way to protect children from men like this is to prevent them from committing offences. On the current sentencing options available, that means prison. They should be kept there for a very long time.
Sadly, Sky News is already reporting that "s*x offenders and domestic abusers" could be released early under the plans to be announced tomorrow.
Such a move - like the underlying failure to build sufficient prison places by successive governments - will serve to put children and the wider public at risk of serious harm.
If we are to make the UK the safest place to live, work and raise a family, we must ensure sufficient prison capacity is built - and that these prisons are run efficiently and effectively.
