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England has failed with dangerous, disturbed offenders

10 March 2010

IF YOU’RE going to try to reform society’s most dangerous members, do it properly. That’s the message from a new review of the , run over the past decade in two jails and two secure hospitals in England.

The progamme was launched by the UK Ministry of Justice following a vicious 1996 crime. A man diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder attacked a woman and her two daughters with a hammer, killing two and leaving the surviving child with severe head injuries.

Under the programme, some 450 men considered to have a “dangerous and severe”…

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