Never mind that on all the evidence available, prison is out of all theways of handling criminals the least effective at cuttingreoffending.
No, we must be tough, and that is all that matters.
The Youth Justice Board can say goodbye to its goal of seeing a 10 percent reduction by 2008 in the number of young people sent to prison.Most of those who will get four years for carrying a knife - one of JohnReid's new measures - will be young people.
Equally worrying is the plan to make parents pay for damage or distresscaused by children under 10, who are too young to prosecutedirectly.
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