When our criminal justice system fails & the innocent are wrongly convicted the costs (human & financial) are enormous. * Families ruined & forced into poverty * Careers ended * Prison costs £37,500 pp pa * Jailing the innocent protects no-one * Compensation * Appeal costs
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Have you looked into what kinds of penal reforms happen elsewhere? The deprivation of liberty seems to breed harder crims, community service seems soft/unmonitored. There must be something else?
What about the cost to the victims failed by the justice system where lack of policing and/or statistical crime screening takes place, or patriarchal judges who live in realms outside normality let abusers/offenders walk away? What about the cost to those?
