The body's latest corporate plan for the next three years contains no reference to the previous long-running target to reduce custody levels it has emerged. This target had been set at 10 per cent between 2005 and 2008. Instead the plan places an emphasis on reducing reoffending rates. Reductions in custody levels are now seen as an indicator to achieving this. Penelope Gibbs, director of the Prison Reform Trust's programme to reduce child and youth imprisonment, said: "We are incredibly concerned that the target has been dropped. We are also...


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