
The Steve Reed One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
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The Importance of Punishment in Prison
I want prison to make people less likely to offend. I understand that because it helps to protect communities, but the biggest step is to prevent crime from happening in the first place. We're proposing to introduce clean-up squads where people who are found to have dumped rubbish on streets will be made to clear it up afterwards. People don't like it if their area looks unloved and full of rubbish,. It says something about who they are, where they live, deterred in with investment. If you make the mess, you'll clear up the mess, and it actually has a very beneficial effect on the entire community. The single biggest thing that people have even mowed about me about in
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