Tories planning new prison places

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7274148.stm

About time Cameron came out with some policies

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Under the plans, older inner-city jails would be sold off to pay for more new prisons on cheaper land elsewhere.

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"Today, I think almost everything with the system is wrong," he told BBC Breakfast. "A criminal goes to court - they are told they have got a four year sentence and they are let out after two, so everybody feels cheated.

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"We are going to change that and say the judge should read out what we call the 'min-max'.

"And then the prisoner has to earn release through good behaviour, through hard work, through making reparations to their victims."

Your thoughts? Any sort of revamp of our prison system is a good thing, right?