Gauke: ‘Tough on Crime’ Policies Too Costly to Keep

Ex-Tory-turned-Labour Sentencing Czar David Gauke has released an ‘interim’ report ahead of Spring’s sentencing review claiming that the ‘tough on crime’ approach is to blame for Britain’s prison overcrowding crisis. According to Gauke, the “knee-jerk” sentencing policies since the 90s—introducing longer jail terms—have left prisons “dangerously close to collapse.”[…] Read the rest