{"id":902,"date":"2009-04-25T08:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T07:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-04-25T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T10:52:44","slug":"no-titan-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"No Titan jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img size-full wp-image-904 alignleft\" style=\"width:78px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wandsworth_prison1.jpg\" alt=\"Wandsworth Prison\" width=\"78\" height=\"116\" \/>\r\n\t<div>wandsworth_prison1<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>It has been widely reported that Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has abandoned his flagship proposals for the 2,500-place jails because of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of prison places will not be cut because the Government intends to build five smaller jails.<\/p>\n<p>A plan to buy a prison ship with 450 places has also been abandoned, after building a traditional jail was found to be 25 per cent cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>The Prison Reform Trust denounced the scheme as a &#8220;gigantic and costly mistake that others will live to regret&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Howard League for Penal Reform, said the plan was aimed at &#8220;delivering justice on the cheap&#8221;. Consultation on the proposals also revealed almost universal opposition to Titan jails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wandsworth_prison1 It has been widely reported that Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has abandoned his flagship proposals for the 2,500-place jails because of the cost. The total number of prison places will not be cut because the Government intends to build five smaller jails. A plan to buy a prison ship with 450 places has [&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-902","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\/902","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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}