Mikaida writes about japan for the economist, and has been to fushu prison in west tokio. The number of criminals over the age of 65 has more than doubled over the past two decades. Older convicts have an exceptionally high racidavism rate. In 20 20, older people accounted for more than 20 % of those entering prison that year.
As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison population is ageing just as its wider society is—and that is at last prompting reforms to its punitive penal system. And why Ukraine’s short supply of anti-tank missiles is not as worrying as it would once have been.
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