An Answer to Prison Overcrowding
In this article Janet Carter, retired barrister and former MOJ legal training manager sets out the legal framework for considering community orders:
"The key point is that the law not only allows the community order to be imposed but positively demands that it is considered, even when the guideline so clearly sets out a custodial period"
From the New Law Journal with permission to reproduce.
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