Britons don’t want new prisons. They also don’t want old ones to close
That is bad news for their residents
ON APRIL 7TH Harborough District Council in Leicestershire refused planning permission for a new prison that would have housed 1,700 inmates. Buckinghamshire County Council and Chorley in Lancashire have in the past few months voted down requests from the Ministry of Justice to build new prisons. It would seem as though Britons do not want prisons in their backyards. But things are not quite that simple.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Victorian values”
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