Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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London cyclists collide with 25% of guide dogs working in the capital.
Doing the rounds on Twitter, there's a picture titled A flower for every person who died within six weeks of Atos finding them fit for work.
There are a lot of flowers.
Can it really be true that so many people have died such a short time after their assessment by Atos?
Chris Grayling's right to say that there are 700 more sex offenders in prison this year than last year.
but only about 80 of those are new cases entering the prison population.
Well, when you think about the prison population, it's kind of helpful to think about it as a big bath, where how much water you've got in the bath depends on whether there was some in there already, and in terms of the prison population, that's most of it.
How fast you've turned the taps on
And how firmly you've stuck the plug in.
So at the moment, what we've got is a slight increase in the tax being turned on.
Yeah.
but releases have dropped dramatically in the same year.
Indeed.
I remember when Michael Howard made the comment about prison works in the early 1990s.
He, along with a lot of other politicians, was enormously surprised to see the prison population go up immediately afterwards.
No, it was simply because a load of sentences sitting around the country were thinking, oh, well, if it works, we better all stop.
You know, we've been told we shouldn't be using prison so much.
But if the Home Secretary is saying that prison works, perhaps we can take the brakes off.
And actually you see there's analyses done which show that those sorts of speeches do actually influence behaviour and that legislation that's intended to do certain things does not necessarily have the effect that people expect of it.
Chris Grayling's rather taken the brakes off, so I don't think anybody who understands anything about criminal policy would find it particularly surprising that the prison population has started to go up again under his watch.
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