Sentences with phrase «prison than secretaries»

Governors know more about what works in prison than secretaries of state.

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After less than a year, most of these measures were reversed, and the prison population began once again to rise rapidly, stimulated by the then Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard, who avowed that «prison works».

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, has said that falling crime rates in past years have been due to increased prosperity rather than rising prison numbers.