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TOPICAL ISSUES AND COMMENT

Prison works?

The government needs to make its mind up about prison, writes Joe Black: is it to be a modern industrialised gulag or a place to modify and control offending behaviour?

Pages 6-7 | Published online: 02 Aug 2010

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