The body's latest corporate plan for the next three years contains noreference to the previous long-running target to reduce custody levelsit has emerged. This target had been set at 10 per cent between 2005 and2008. Instead the plan places an emphasis on reducing reoffending rates.Reductions in custody levels are now seen as an indicator to achievingthis.
Penelope Gibbs, director of the Prison Reform Trust's programme toreduce child and youth imprisonment, said: "We are incredibly concernedthat the target has been dropped. We are also concerned that the plansuggests that the only way to reduce custody levels will be throughreducing reoffending. Custody reduction should be a priority in its ownright and needs to have its own target."
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