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It is inevitable that, having been a magistrate for so many years, this blog will contain a fair bit of comment on legal matters, including those cases which came before me in court. However, it is not restricted to such and may at times stray ‘off-topic’ and into whatever area interests me at the time.

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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

How to waste £11 million

An interesting snippet from the weekend’s papers:

A project to cut the re-offending rate for criminals jailed for up to one year has cost £11 million and has, it was reported, been ‘disappointing’ and has had no impact on re-offending rates. Those targeted by the scheme have shown a 42.4% re-offending rate, against a rate of 41.6% for those not given this special help - £11 million for a worse result!
Some people seem unable to grasp the simple fact we face in court every day, you can’t force rehabilitation on those who don’t want to be rehabilitated.
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