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Drugs, drones and heat: Amber Rudd and David Lammy begin search for answers to prisons crisis (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by Biscuitt@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Why Amber Rudd? Such a random person to give this task to. Why not someone who knows something about prisons? Didn't they make the Timpsons guy the prisons minister for this reason?

Rudd said she was not an expert on prisons and was surprised to be offered the job.

At least she acknowledges the insane nature of this.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Over the course of the last decade, each year has seen an average of 2,685 new laws - the equivalent of almost seven and a half a day or one every three-and-a-quarter hours

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/04/houseofcommons.uk

This was in 2007. The size of the body of legislation has only grown since then. Literally impossible for anybody to follow every law. How about cutting down on some of that instead of trying to abolish jury trials, human rights, and releasing rapists early?

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Treating drug use as a health and social issue rather than a lawful one might be a start.

[–] pi3r8@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Still too many outraged elderly people for this to work.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 10 hours ago

Fuck them. It does work, just because they're outraged about it doesn't change its efficacy.

Most of them are outraged because of government propaganda telling them "drugs are bad, mmkay", so the government can just spin up propaganda to support health intervention instead.