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  This is one of those chicken and egg legal situations.
  There are those who want rehab to try and stop habitual re-offenders re-offending, and there are those who want to lock 'em up so they simply just cannot re-offend.
  
  Michael Howard. Home Secretary of note in a previous administration, was distinctly of the second school as I remember. He used to get big cheers and much back slapping at Conservative Party conferences on such matters..there was one particular moment of popular rapture when he said... "prison works"..it brought the house down.
  
  This second solution is good if you have plenty of prisons, plenty of staff to staff the prisons, plenty of social rehabilitation/indoctrination etc, but .. and yes you know the next but...these things cost money.
  
  Once upon a time the Conservatives were the law and order party but alas no longer, they have lost the initiative. Even the staunch Tory newspaper is critical as we see above. The Conservatives now appear to penny pinch in their approach to criminality, and you can see that in the feature at the top of the page. Ken Clarke, affable guy in the suede shoes, is making a balls of it currently.

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