IF our country’s prisons are not struggling with problems of overcrowding yet, they will do so soon enough.
Creative and constructive solutions are needed to address this problem, with an emphasis on treating imprisonment as a punishment of last resort. In other words, sentencing principles must be designed to ensure that custodial terms are no longer than strictly necessary.
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