Richard Michael Blaber<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/10/i-experienced-britains-prisons-crisis-first-hand-but-the-owers-review-gives-me-hope" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">ug/10/i-experienced-britains-prisons-crisis-first-hand-but-the-owers-review-gives-me-hope</span></a>. "The 90% reduction in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/custody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>custody</span></a> over 2 decades proves that community-based prevention works. The youth <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> system’s multi-agency approach, involving <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialservices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialservices</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>families</span></a>, has achieved what our adult system cannot: actually reducing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/offending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>offending</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prison</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> campaigners are often accused of being 'soft on crime'. But there is nothing soft about wanting a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> that actually works."</p>