In his first major speech since returning to office, Clarke emphasised that it costs more to put someone in prison for a year than send a boy to Eton – on average £38,000.
Announcing reforms to the justice system, Clarke said he wanted to see a move towards more rigorous community sentences, with the voluntary and private sectors playing a greater role.
"It is virtually impossible to do anything productive with offenders on short sentences," he said. "We want a far more constructive approach, what my party in opposition called a ‘rehabilitation revolution’. This means prisons that are places of punishment, but also of education, hard work and change. It means rigorously enforced community sentences that punish offenders, but also get them off drugs and alcohol and into employment."
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