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  Prison does not work - as a former Tory Home Office minister once said "prison is a very expensive way to make bad people worse". The notion of rehabilitation that underpins our penal system is clearly failing and in fact has been failing for over 40 odd years. This is because there are too many prisoners (over 86,000) meaning prison officers are over worked and education services are stretched thin to the point of uselessness. Reducing the prison population will ensure that those that are put away are actually given the support and opportunities to rehabilitate.
  This does not mean we should be soft on minor offences, it does however mean we need to find better sentences/punishments for these crimes, which should include properly structured and supervised community service which genuinely benefits the community. As for habitual criminals/repeat offenders we need sentencing guidelines that allow escalation of time served (e.g. for each repeat offence the sentence doubles) and/or the ability to sentence without the right to remission.
  As for the conditions within prison, removal of liberty is the principle point of prison and this must and should extend to no access to e-mails or internet, heavily limited access to a pay phone, no mobile phones, television/games/radio access only during free association time etc. Further all prisoners should be encouraged to work within prison as a way of mitigating the costs of their incarceration.

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