OUR prison population is 70,000 because that is where such criminals should be. The prison governors should not ask the judges not to send people to prison. We should build many more prisons, lock up many more people and preferably throw away the keys.
David Quarrie,
Lynden Way,
York.
Updated: 10:24 Wednesday, March 13, 2002
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