Magistrates and short jail sentences

HMP Littlehey. ‘We need a real overhaul of what has been a disastrous dismantling of the probation service’.Petty offenders are only jailed way into a long pattern of offending and failure to respond to non-custodial sentences.When the courts have tried all non-custodial punishments escalating from discharges, through fines, to low-level community penalties, medium community penalties, then high-level community penalties, and the drug user/habitual yob on a hair trigger/recidivist ha