I welcome the Secretary of State's road-to-Damascus conversion to rehabilitation. I made a note of some of the promises that he makes in the Green Paper, which include regular working hours, restorative justice, custody diversion, and drug, alcohol and mental health services. What bothers me is that if those things are to be effective, they cannot be done on the cheap. It is wrong of him to promise such investment in rehabilitation, because the 23% cut to the Ministry of Justice and cuts in probation mean that those promises are completely undeliverable.
Rehabilitation and Sentencing
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 December 2010.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Rehabilitation and Sentencing.
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