§ 30. Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what weight he attaches to the prison population as a measure of the success of the criminal justice system; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacleanThe Government's criminal justice policy objectives include the prevention of crime as well as the conviction and appropriate punishment of those who commit it. Prison population figures cannot in isolation be seen as a measure of either the success or the failure of the criminal justice system in its response to crime.