Debate: Can probation service protect public from early release prisoners?

We spoke to Gavin Lee, a former probation manager who left his job in May after three decades.

Could an answer to the prison overcrowding crisis be to let out women offenders? Two writers go head to head Yes: We are locking up women who’ve been failed by the system Right now, prisons contain women who shouldn’t be there. Prison doesn’t work and it harms women. Almost 70 per cent of women in…