{"id":1601,"date":"2010-07-15T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2010-07-15T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:30:46","slug":"prison-works-prison-doesn%e2%80%99t-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Prison works &#8211; prison doesn\u2019t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-1602\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Lord-Chancellor-Kenneth-Clarke.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Lord-Chancellor-Kenneth-Clarke-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke has re-opened a debate about prison numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Figures show that, between 1993 and 2010 the prison population in England and Wales rose from 44,500 to 85,000. During the same period, crime fell by a half from 18.5m offences.  This appears to suggest that as crime fell by just under a half at the same time as the prison population grew by nearly a half, prison works.  A similar trend has been seen in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, Clarke argues that there is no &#8220;direct correlation&#8221; between prison numbers and crime rates. The fall in the crime rate during the 1990s, he suggested, was more down to his policies as chancellor than Michael Howard&#8217;s as home secretary.<\/p>\n<p>A confidential strategy unit report drawn up in 2006 argues that 80% of the recent decrease in crime is due to economic factors.  Crime fell again today with figures released showing a 9% fall.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke\u2019s argument is supported by other data. Between 1951 and 1971 the prison population doubled, while during the same period police-recorded crime trebled. Between 1971 and 1991 recorded crime trebled whilst prison numbers remained largely unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke The Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke has re-opened a debate about prison numbers. Figures show that, between 1993 and 2010 the prison population in England and Wales rose from 44,500 to 85,000. During the same period, crime fell by a half from 18.5m offences. This appears to suggest that as crime fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}