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"Prison makes bad people worse". Critically evaluate this statement in the light of rising prison numbers.
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PENOLOGY 4. "Prison makes bad people worse". Critically evaluate this statement in the light of rising prison numbers. In the year 2002, there were just over 68,000 persons in prison in England and Wales, 6,000 in Scotland and 1,200 in Northern Ireland. In the case of England and Wales, this is a few thousand more than in 1999, but at this time the plateau stood in marked comparison to the trend up to 1997-8 and it was by no means certain that this could be maintained, (Morgan, 2002). These findings serve to highlight the progressive increase in rising prison numbers in the UK the causes of which are continually in debate and begs the question; What happens when there is no more room left in our prisons? For the purpose of this essay, this author assumes that the statement "prison makes bad people worse" infers that an offender who serves a custodial...
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