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Drugs, drones and heat: Amber Rudd and David Lammy begin search for answers to prisons crisis

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Biscuitt@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/12/drugs-drones-heat-amber-rudd-david-lammy-prison-crisis-review-wandsworth

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  • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Treating drug use as a health and social issue rather than a lawful one might be a start.

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    • pi3r8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still too many outraged elderly people for this to work.

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      • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Fuck them. It does work, just because they’re outraged about it doesn’t change its efficacy.

        Most of them are outraged because of government propaganda telling them “drugs are bad, mmkay”, so the government can just spin up propaganda to support health intervention instead.

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Over the course of the last decade, each year has seen an average of 2,685 new laws - the equivalent of almost seven and a half a day or one every three-and-a-quarter hours

    www.theguardian.com/politics/…/houseofcommons.uk

    This was in 2007. The size of the body of legislation has only grown since then. Literally impossible for anybody to follow every law. How about cutting down on some of that instead of trying to abolish jury trials, human rights, and releasing rapists early?

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