Director of Prison Reform Trust on prison capacity and longer sentences

Worth with Offenders talks to Peter Dawson on the link between longer prison sentences and offending.

A prisoner sits in a cell at category C prison HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough

Statistics collected at the end of March 2020 show that around 48 per cent of the sentenced population were serving more than four years. At the same time, ONS estimates of crime levels, excluding fraud and computer misuse, have dropped...