Rehabilitation and Sentencing

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 3:34 pm on 7 December 2010.

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Photo of Paul Maynard Paul Maynard Conservative, Blackpool North and Cleveleys 3:34, 7 December 2010

I congratulate the Secretary of State on avoiding the siren calls of populism that I have been so disappointed to hear on both sides of the House today. Will he reassure me that when a prisoner is in prison, not only does he have a duty to make reparations but the state also has a duty, to offer him the opportunity of redemption, so that when he leaves that place of incarceration he has a chance to lead a useful and meaningful life-a life that is not reduced to one of stigmatisation or described, as I heard from the Opposition Benches, as that of a prisoner on the streets?