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... WHAT ARE THE REASONS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SENT TO JAIL IN THIS COUNTRY? HOW AND WHY MIGHT THIS NUMBER BE REDUCED? In the last decade, the prison population of this country has been increasing and at this moment in time it reached an all-time high. You would think that the rise of the prison population is due to the increase of people committing crimes, however this is not to be. This growth is due to the Home Secretary wanting to be more 'tough' on crime. This is why so many people convicted of indictable offences are sent to jail. The idea that if criminals are kept in jail they will then be unable commit further crimes. In Britain we don't have the death penalty so the toughest punishment a criminal can get is life imprisonment, the equivalent of 25 years. The prison population has been rising throughout the 20th Century, but
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