But the reality of what we are confronting is that, if allowed to go unchecked, we could end up in a position where someone who was arrested for very serious offences, for example, offences related to violence against a woman, and we wouldn’t have anywhere to send that individual.
Addressing concerns about serious offenders and prison capacity.
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I worry that we are at kind of a ground zero in terms of attitudes around violence against women and girls.
We’ve seen some pretty shocking failings in terms of the police response over decades and sadly we’re not seeing the progress that we should in terms of how the police will often respond to this.
We have faced some really difficult and unpalatable choices because of the huge crisis that was left behind in the prisons estate.
I think it is fundamentally racist because I don’t think he would say that about any other group.
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