... being seen as a soft option the criminal justice service is seen as laughable. The previous reforms which are in place today exist as governmental response to a "revolution" in the prison system during the 1960's and 1970's, which took the form of leftist criminological thinking manifested in the form of a push for the abolishment of the prison system as it stood and still stands. This movement had been in the making for the previous two hundred years since 'The state of the prison' (Howard, 1777) which criticised the conditions of what was then a privately run organisation of internment, in particular the element of overcrowding and the condition of care for inmates at such facilities. The report had a damming effect on the issue of imprisonment of offenders at a time when the UK still integrated capital punishment into its justice system. Then came reforms in the history of the ...

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