The final insult
25.09.09
We should be ashamed that we are not offering the kind of mental health, drug and alcohol support that is clearly badly needed to support those who have risked their lives to protect our liberty.
The final insult of the week has to be the the rising number of our former servicemen ending up in the criminal justice system.
Instead we now have over 8,500 veterans behind bars – over 10% of the total held in our prison system: a system which is overburdened and under resourced.
Surely now is the time to divert as many of these veterans as possible, with the resources it costs to lock them up, away from custody into properly robust and appropriate services in the community.
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