John Bercow calls for a debate on the Centre for Social Justice report, “Locked Up Potential”, which calls for an increased focus on education, training and rehabilitation.

John Bercow (Buckingham) (Con): Given that we have 80,000 prisoners in this country, that two thirds of them reoffend within two years of release, and that the whole system, including reoffending, costs £18,000 million a year, is it not time that we debated the Centre for Social Justice report, “Locked Up Potential”, which calls for the scrapping of the three planned Titan prisons, for community prisons in their stead, and for an increased focus on education, training and rehabilitation?

Ms Harman: That point was raised yesterday in Prime Minister’s questions, and I shall raise it with the Justice Secretary.

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