PM's Priorities: What biblical principles would help fix the prisons system?
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Prisons are high up on the PM's radar as he appointed James Timson as Prisons minister. The new government also announced last week that from September, thousands of prisoners will be released to release pressure on the prisons. Is that watering down the justice of their sentence? Prison campaigner Sara Hyde and Prison Chaplin Rev Tracy Sickle joined Esther Higham to discuss what principles the new government should apply to our prisons system.
Released on 25 Jul 2024
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