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Sentence inflation: a judicial critique

The most senior former judges in England and Wales have called on the government to reverse the trend of imposing ever longer sentences, giving warning that radical solutions are needed to address the acute crisis in prisons.

This paper outlines how and why prison sentences have increased in recent decades and the impact this has had.

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